LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 



Chap. Copyright No. 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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TRUTH UNVEILED 



By Edward Barney 






How swaet the words of truth, 
Breathed from the lips of love. 

— Beattie* 

Truth from hfs lips prevailed with double sway, 
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. 

—Goldsmith. 



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BY EDWARD BARNEY 



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HTHB objects in view in presenting this book to the 
public are, first — that the reader may be benefited 
thereby. Second, to introduce some truths, the know- 
ledge of which have proved of incalculable value to 
myself, with the hope that many of my readers may 
receive like benefit. Third, to endeavor to unveil, by 
the light of reason, the truth concerning some things 
which has heretofore been so veiled or mystified that 
multitudes of the best people of the land have been 
woefully imposed upon because of their ignorance of the 
truth in the premises. As to whether the truth in 
relation to these subjects has purposely been veiled in 
order to deceive the many that a certain class might 
thereby gain influence, power, and revenue at the 
former's expense, I leave the reader to judge. I have 
endeavored also to encourage independent thought and 
the free use of our own reasoning faculties as sources 
of intellectual strength and the proper method of solving 
mystified problems. It has been my object to bring out 
the truth of the subjects treated in such a way that all 



4 PREFACE 

who are seeking for the truth will have no trouble in 
finding it. Also to impress upon the mind of the reader 
the vital importance of adhering to many minor facts 
that enter into every day life, the doing of which would 
add materially to the health, happiness, and comfort of 
the adherents; and to give my readers the benefit of my 
experience and knowledge of the great absorbing truth 
of the time — the power of thought to heal or banish 
disease, trouble, or whatever is not to our liking. I have 
aimed to satisfy the craving of thousands of the suffering 
and sorrowing and bring the sunshine of joy and glad- 
ness to many hearts and homes. I feel confident, from 
the benefit I myself have received and what I know 
others have received, having acted upon these principles, 
that the readers of this little book who will faithfully 
follow the suggestions or great truths herein promulgated 
will be the recipients of blessings which connot be 
measured or estimated by a money value. For health 
and happiness, without drugs or cost, and the knowledge 
of how to attain them stand paramount to all else. 

The Author. 



CONTENTS. 



Introductory Remarks, 9 

CHAPTER I. 

Natural Causes of Diseases and How to Avoid 
Them, 16 

CHAPTER II. 

Do Your Own Thinking and Know Your Own Power — 
The Effect of Drugs and Medicines, • . 26 

CHAPTER III. 

A Retrospective Glance as to the Bible and the Early 
Influence of the Church, • . • • 34 

CHAPTER IV. 

The God of the Bible in the Light of Reason— The 
Atrocities Laid to His Charge — His Share of Booty 
Taken in Battle — His Threatened Uncivil Treatment 
of David's Wives — His Selling of Israel to Their 
Enemies — Evil Results of Religion— Learning Cut 



6 CONTENTS. 

Down to Suit Religion — Cruel Torture Inflicted on 
Unbelievers — Corruption and Exorbitant Charges of 
the Early Church, 47 

CHAPTER V. 

Thought as a Factor in the Race Growth — The Most 
Potent Force in the World — Man Upon Earth More 
Than 100,000 Years Ago— Similiarity of Man and 
Mammal During the Embryo State — Thought a 
Prime Factor in Civilization — The Lever in the 
Progress of Science, • , • . . 75 

CHAPTER VI. 

What is Man?— His Power Almost Unlimited— Not a 
Machine Operated by Outside Agencies — His Power 
Comes from Within — He is Allied to, and is One 
with, the Supreme Power — Is but the Visible Expres- 
sion of the Universal Intelligence, the Vital Force 
that Permeates Ail Things that Men Call God— 
His Improvements by His Own Mistakes and the 
Mistakes o! Others, both Individually and as 
Nations, 94 

CHAPTER VII. 

The Power of Thought to Heal the Sick and Shape our 
Destinies— Mind more Powerful than Electricity— It 



CONTENTS. 7 

Can Renew our Youth— it Can Certainly Prolong 
Life — It is Able to Cure Cancers and Rebuild 
Tissue — It is Able to Bear the Healing Balm and 
the Olive Branch of Peace and Good Cheer to 
others, 115 

CHAPTER VIII. 

The Capital and Labor Problem from the Standpoint 
of Reason and a Universal Brotherhood, . 161 

CHAPTER IX. 

Heaven in the Home and no Toll-Gates, • • 164 

CHAPTER X. 

Poverty and Wealth, . . . . . . 170 

CHAPTER XI. 

Coc elusion, ••••••••! 72 



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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 

THAT health, happiness and wealth, is what 
the world desires, no candid thinking per- 
son will deny. Nor will any candid thinking 
person deny that all are entitled to these great 
blessings. And here the writer undertakes to 
show how they may be attained by all who will 
fall in line or place themselves in harmony 
with the laws governing in these matters, and 
seek to understand the law of life, the creating 
power and his relation to this law, and the 
power within himself to co-operate with, or 
appropriate to his own good the benefits arising 
from a knowledge of his own power to control 
his environments and to open the clogged 
avenues through which may flow the long- 
sought-for health, happiness and wealth. 

There are greater possibilities secreted, or 
lying dormant in the brain of man than is 



10 truth unveiled. 

generally understood. Science is now beginning 
rapidly to disclose this store-house of know- 
ledge that the common people — and not a fav- 
ored few only — may enjoy the benefits of this 
most wonderful truth. That all is good when 
rightly understood. The light is dawning 
slowly but surely, and there is a freedom of 
intelligent, universal thought running through 
every branch of science, every line of social, 
religious and political life, as was never known 
in the history of the world. 

A ripple of independent thought is noticeable 
in almost every circle of society. Once let this 
great truth be universally understood and acted 
upon, and man will have control of his environ- 
ments, which only can give absolute happiness. 

I will here give some of my own experience 
which led up to the freedom I now enjoy in 
the recognition of the power within, or a one- 
ness with the life principle — The universal 
spirit of love, the universal intelligence, or the 
all good that men call God — which unravels 
the secret of self-healing, or mind-cure, that is 
doing such wonders in the world. 



TRUTH UNVEILED. 11 

I was for a number of years a daily sufferer 
from pain as a result of a severe attack and long 
siege of lung fever and relapse, which left me 
in an enfeebled condition with an acute pain in 
my left lung, which clung to me for years after- 
wards, and would have caused my death had I 
given up to it. Though I had to work, it was 
never without pain, which I tried to conceal as 
best I could, for I did not like to be consid- 
ered an invalid. 

I tried the use of various patent medicines, 
and doctored with the best physicians in south- 
eastern Iowa, but received no permanent benefit, 
and I began to fear the worst; and my friends 
thought I had a settled case of consumption. 
Although I was not entirely discouraged — for 
I was of a hopeful and cheerful temperament 
and tried to see the brightest side of everything 
and not dwell upon the dark side of life at all — 
yet it began to look as though I would have to 
accept what seemed to be the inevitable ; until 
one day a little event occurred which caused me 
to change my mind, and aroused a determination 
in my mind to not give up, or yield to this 



12 truth unveii,kd. 

negative condition, so I discarded medicine and 
physicians and brought into play my willpower, 
and began rapidly to revover and soon became 
not only free from pain but a sound man. 

This was a number of years ago and I feel 
confident that I shall have no more use for 
physicians or medicine. But this happy turn 
in my own case and my experience in a number 
of other cases set me to thinking and reading, as 
well as reasoning along this line. I had had a great 
deal of experience among the sick and dying, 
for I always went where I could be of any 
assistance in giving medicine, watching over or 
taking care of the sick in the neighborhood, 
and frequently the patient was left in my charge 
while the parents or friends would take rest and 
sleep, so I became quite proficient as a nurse 
among the sick; and not infrequently have I 
laid the medicine aside when the patient was 
resting or sleeping, sometimes for nearly the 
entire night, and always with good results. But 
I am sur>e that in some cases the medicine given 
was very injurious, and in a few cases I fear it 
was the cause of death. 



TRUTH UNVEII^D. 13 

But in four different cases, of small children, 
one of a Mr. Phillips, near Lowell, Iowa, and 
one of Mr. E. Seaton, near Salem, Iowa, both 
of brain fever, and two of my own children, with 
cholera infantum, all of whom the doctors had 
given up as past help, and in the case of Mr. 
Phillips' child, I was there when a second 
doctor arrived, who had been called from New 
London, a Doctor Philpot, and pronounced the 
child then dying and prescribed nothing. I 
stayed with them and treated the child that 
night and the next, and the child became 
conscious and got well, as did also the other 
three under similar treatment, without any 
medicine from the time they were pronounced 
by the doctors to be past help. I relate these 
cases to show that doctors do not always know. 

I will relate one more case of an adult, a 
Mr. Benjamin Haig, then of near Mt. Pleasant, 
Iowa, but now of Aurora, 111., I believe. I 
learned that he was very sick. They were poor, 
and I thought they might need assistance. I 
took a German neighbor, whom I considered 
something of a doctor, with me. His name was 



14 Truth unveii^d. 

August Kudohe. When we arrived at Mr. 
Haig's we found the wife and children and 
brother-in-law weeping. They said Mr. Haig 
was dying. He was unconscious, his eyes half 
closed and set; could not get him to notice any 
thing. As Mr. Kudohe was an older man and 
of good judgment, I called on him to advise, but 
he seemed to be entirely nonplused, and could 
not do, nor advise any thing. I saw the situation 
was a sad one, the doctor had been there the 
day before but thought it no use to come 
back, so I went to work, using my own judgment, 
and within three hours he was talking and his 
family rejoicing. He recovered. 

While, I could recite many, even more 
remarkable cases, I think enough have been 
given to answer our purpose. But further 
along more will be related in connection with 
my advanced knowledge and later experience. 

In the recovery of the four children, I 
attributed it to direct answer to prayer and good 
nursing. In the case of Mr. Haig, to doing the 
right thing at the right time, for I had no time 
to pray, only as I worked to get rid of the effect 



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of the medicine he had taken. He surely could 
not have lived until morning without relief. 

I^ater on I will give you what I now believe 
to have restored those patients to consciousness 
and health. 



CHAPTER I. 

Natural Causes of Diseases and How to Avoid Them. 

HP HERE are many and various natural or 
general causes of disease, a little study of 
which would enable many persons and families 
to guard against and save a great deal of suffer- 
ing, cost and trouble. It is very truthfully 
said that "an ounce of prevention is worth a 
pound of cure.' ' And I want here to give some 
suggestions or statement of facts that will be of 
great benefit to all who will heed them; and 
especially to those in the common walks of life. 
Now, as a rule, we can trace all of our ills 
and suffering to some cause; either to our 
own imprudence or violation of the laws of 
health, or to some event over which we had no 
control. And after we have considered the 
best methods of avoiding disease and suffering 
and unhappiness, we will consider the best 
means of getting rid of suffering and unhap- 
piness. 



truth unveiled. 17 

While it is true that the lack of proper sani- 
tary conditions will breed dyphtheria, typhoid, 
yellow and malarial fevers, and similar 
diseases, it is also true that the lack of proper 
ventilation in the home and living upon carpets 
is one of the most prolific breeders of pulmonary 
and throat diseases in the world. It not only 
engenders pulmonary and throat trouble, but it 
poisons the blood and lays the foundation for 
an untold train of physical troubles. In fact, 
there are thousands of weakly and apparently 
short-lived children raised by the most tender 
and loving mothers, through their carefulness 
to keep the door shut, the windows closed to 
keep out the cold and the night air, etc., not 
dreaming of the almost invisible deadly dust 
arising from the carpet over which the children 
are playing, or the death-ladened atmosphere of 
the poorly ventilated sleeping or living rooms, 
after the oxygen or life sustaining principle has 
been exhausted by frequent inhalation. 

Bear in mind that carpets are the bane of 
children, and that the air of night is just the 
game as that of day, and by all means insist 



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upon an open window or some means of ventila- 
tion in the sleeping rooms, as well as in the 
living room; and if you want to secure the best 
results obtainable, let the bed-clothes be fre- 
quently well shaken in out-door air and given a 
good sun bath. 

How comparatively few people are aware of 
the great benefits to be derived from a judicious 
use of sunshine and how very injurious to be 
entirely shut out from the sun's rays. 

How soon it vail show its deleterious effects 
upon our domestic animals or fowls to be 
entirely excluded from its life-giving power. 
Pigs, calves, colts, and poultry, as well as plants 
and vegetables, will, if entirely shut away from 
the sun's rays, soon become puny and sickly, 
and even die for want of it. 

And it is equals so with the human race. 
We must have plenty of sunshine or suffer the 
consequences. 

The sun is truly called the father of lights. 
Not only so, but it is claimed by scientists that 
it is the origin of life on this planet. That this 
earth with its satellite, the moon, is but a 



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hatching place, where the numerous forms of 
individual life are brought forth by mother 
earth, or matter, through the direct influence of 
the sun. Be that as it may, we know that it 
has wonderful life-giving power, and that every 
form of life in the vegetable and animal king- 
dom is dependent upon its rays for existence, 
and its rays should be a welcome visitor in 
ever? home. 

Of course any good thing, speaking of the 
physical, can be overdone; for instance, we 
might be confined in a torrid climate, under 
the direct rays of the sun, with no means of 
escape or of modifying the heat, and it would 
prove very injurious. Just so with the element 
of water. While we cannot get along without 
it, yet an injudicious use or application of it 
might prove very injurious, or even cause death. 
But we want to be temperate in all things, as 
well as in our eating and drinking. If we feel 
that we must drink intoxicants, let it be with 
moderation and never to intoxication. 

No one can point to an individual who was 
better fitted for the business or professional 



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position he occupied, or who would be better 
fitted to fill any position of trust or usefulness, 
by an over indulgence, or even a moderate use 
of intoxicating drinks. But we can, any of us, 
remember cases and point with pain to individ- 
uals of bright intellect, good business qualifica- 
tions, with fair prospects for usefulness, wealth 
and fame, whose bright prospects were all 
wrecked by the curse or habit ol drink. In 
fact, the road of intemperance is strewn from 
beginning to end with moral, mental and 
physical wrecks. 

Then think of the untold suffering, misery, 
disgrace and poverty which comes to the 
victims, directly or indirectly, and is kept con- 
cealed from the world as much as possible, and 
you have a faint picture of the awfulness and 
danger of the drink habit. And then comes 
close in its wake the useless, filthy and harmful 
tobacco habit. 

They are dangerous and poverty-making 
habits. 

Let us shun them. 

Another one of the most, if not the most, 



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prolific source of disease is fear, worry and 
anxiety about matters over which we think we 
have no control. Really, I think there is noth- 
ing so harmful to the human system, both 
physically and mentally, as fear and consequent 
worry. It has been so almost from the begin- 
ning. In fact, we might say we were conceived 
and brought forth in fear; in fear of sickness, in 
fear of poverty, in fear of physical or mental 
deformity of our children, in fear we might not 
be able to accomplish the object of our heart's 
desire, in fear of a disturbance of the elements 
by earthquake, tornado, too much rain, too 
little rain, too much cold or too much heat, in 
fear our supply of wood, coal, building material, 
etc., might be cut off or run out, in fear of war, 
famine, pestilence, and a thousand other things 
that we don't desire might come our way. 

But the most general and the most prolific of 
evil consequences of all fears is the fear of 
eternal punishment or banishment from the 
presence of God — the most damnable doctrine 
ever promulgated to the world or instilled into 
the minds of children; the most pernicious in its 



22 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

object or intent; a doctrine that has no founda- 
tion, in fact. It is not founded upon reason, 
nor will it bear the light of reason; yet un- 
scrupulous priests, preachers and ignorant 
religious teachers have been dealing it out 
unstintedly to the world for near two thousand 
years. 

While there is no truth in the doctrine as 
taught, the fear of an imaginary hell has the 
same effect as if it really existed. No one can 
fathom the suffering, the anguish and evil 
results of this fear alone to the countless millions 
of the earth. The constant fear of mothers for 
their children, and even for the babe unborn 
who might be doomed to imaginary torment. 

Think of the idiocy, the insanity, and the 
physical weaknesses, prostrations and suicides 
caused by brooding over what might be the 
doom of children, friends or self. 

If the condition of the human race ever 
required or served as an excuse for so damnable 
a doctrine, certainly, in this enlightened age of 
the world, there is no apology for continuing its 
promulgation. And any priest, preacher or 



TRUTH UNVEII.KD. 23 

teacher who attempts such a thing ought to be 
relegated to oblivion and silence. 

Remember this fact, that no one can enjoy 
perfect health or any degree of happiness while 
tortured with this fear and consequent worry. 
It unsettles the mind, poisons the blood, en- 
genders disease and lays the foundation for 
untold physical and mental troubles, which 
frequently end in death. 

Don't worry; it will do no good, but much 
harm. 

There has been organized in some of the 
eastern cities, within the last two or three 
years, w r hat they are pleased to call anti-worry 
clubs; and it is remarkable the amount of good 
that is growing out of these orders. Let them 
be organized everywhere, the more the better. 
If conducted upon a high intellectual plane, they 
must result in much good. 

It is gratifying to know that some of the 
most able divines, theologians and bible 
students have dropped the doctrine of eternal 
damnation from their teachings; they are 
ashamed to preach it any more, and the church 



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is outgrowing the dark, unreasonable, unchris- 
tian, and un-God-like doctrine, and will no 
more listen to it. 

The church is becoming too enlightened to 
tolerate such teaching, and it will soon be a 
horror of the past, and the principle of 
universal brotherhood, universal love and good 
cheer will have taken its place. 

One more health and strength-giving practice, 
that perhaps not one in five thousand have 
known the great benefits to be derived from, is 
that of frequent deep breathing — especially in the 
pure fresh air. It not only opens all the air cells 
of the lungs, enlarging the breathing capacity, 
thus warding off pulmonary affections, but as a 
blood purifier it has no equal. For if the blood 
is to be purified by coming in contact with the 
air in the lungs, how vastly more blood would 
be purified by being thrown into the lungs well 
expanded with air, than if they were only half 
expanded. Sandow, the great physical wonder, 
attributes the secret, or at least one of the 
secrets, of his extraordinary strength to his 
early formed habit of deep breathing, which 



truth unvkii<ed. 25 

developed him into a symmetrical physical 
giant. 

Air is free; no person or corporation has, or 
is likely to have, a monopoly upon it. It is 
like the sunshine, free to all alike, the poor as 
well as the rich. Then let us make free and 
judicious use of it, for there is no question as 
to such a course being conducive to a vigorous, 
healthy child, man or woman. 

I have briefly discussed some of the more 
general, but least thought of causes of disease 
or ills that afflict the human family — not that 
they were unknown by thoughtful people — but 
to more forcibly bring before and impress upon 
the minds of individuals, and especially mothers, 
the importance of taking heed to these things. 
Of course, we might mention other causes but let 
the foregoing suffice as a foundation for what I 
now wish my intelligent readers to dwell upon 
— the best method of bringing the most happi- 
ness into our lives and homes, and how to be 
able to contribute most to the happiness of those 
around us, and through them to the world at 
large, thus making the world brighter and 
better because we lived in it. 



CHAPTER II. 

Do Your Own Thinking and Know Your Own Power — 
The Effect of Drugs and Medicines. 

TN CONSIDERING this part of my subject I 
shall likely introduce some ideas or methods 
that are new to most people, especially to those 
in the common walks of life, so called. But in 
doing so I shall not introduce any method that 
has not been fully demonstrated by myself and 
many others in different parts of the country, 
is being demonstrated by science all over the 
land, and was practiced nearly two thousand 
years ago; but has been almost abandoned 
because the people at large have allowed the 
priests and preachers to do their thinking, 
reasoning and interpreting for them, and have 
not gone to the fountain head for their informa- 
tion, or in other words, for the Truth; i. e. y we 
have looked too much to the priest, the preacher 
and the doctor, to guard, guide and direct our 
physical, moral and spiritual lives. In fact, the 



TRUTH UNVKII.KD. 27 

masses have depended upon them so long that 
it seems almost impossible now to do without 
them. 

But we could not be expected to break away- 
all at once. These teachers have been of some 
benefit to the race, and have played well their 
part in life's battles in the upward march of the 
race. But it is a well known fact, that these 
guardians have greatly abused their high calling 
by keeping truth so veiled or wrapped in 
mystery, by their interpretations and techni- 
calities, that the people have been in ignorance 
as to what the real truth was. 

These guardians having learned that their 
position and hold upon the people, proved a 
great source of revenue, it was to their pecuniary 
interest to keep them in the dark, so they more 
heavily veiled or enshrouded the truth with 
mystery, and tightened their hold upon the 
people, until in their greed for the fleece they 
almost entirely lost sight of the truth themselves 
and went on devising means to horrify their 
dupes into subjection, until eternal punishment 
was instituted as a last and final bugbear. 



28 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

It has served well its purpose for nearly two 
thousand years, but now light and the truth 
have begun to break through the mists and 
darkness that have so long beclouded the minds 
of the lowly, who begin to hail the dawn 
with jo}^ and are seeking more light, which is 
still coming and will continue to come until the 
people rise in the dignity of their manhood and 
womanhood and divine nature and take their 
place w 7 here they rightfully belong, not beside 
their superiors or inferiors, but beside their 
equals, for there are no superiors nor inferiors 
when we recognize our true relation to the 
Universal Intelligence. 

But notice what a ripple of uneasiness this 
awakening causes all along the line of the 
priestcraft and medical fraternity. This is not 
to be wondered at when their business is so 
material^ affected. Why, the doctors in some 
States have even tried to have Legislatures 
enact laws prohibiting Christian Scientists, 
Mental Scientists and so called Faith Healers 
from operating. 

Now, do you suppose for a moment that it is 



TRUTH UN VEILED. 29 

because they are afraid that these people might 
make a mistake and fail to cure a patient, or 
that one might die under their treatment ? 

Judging from the success or experience of the 
very best physicians of the land, we would 
hardly think that the reason, but rather that 
they feared the effect upon the profession. 

Well, these guardians of soul and body have 
had it about all their own way for a long time, 
and they should not think hard or feel hurt if, 
through the growing intelligence of the people, 
men and women begin taking higher ground 
and assert their right, by conquest, to a position 
in the higher planes of life along side of their 
heretofore more favored brothers and sisters. 
This is as it should be. But from whence must 
come the great blessings for which we seek, 
viz: health, happiness and wealth? 

Shall we trust in drugs and so-called medi- 
cines as restoratives to health ? 

What has been our experience and observa- 
tion along this line? 

I must confess that my own has been anything 
else but satisfactory. Look around you, and 



30 TRUTH UNVEILED, 

what do you see ? Are not the most confirmed 
invalids those who are most addicted to the 
use of drugs and so-called medicines? Most 
assuredly they are. Besides this some of the 
leading physicians of the world have denounced 
drugs and so-called medicines as a humbug and 
have confessed that they have killed about as 
many as they have cured, and from my own 
experience and observation I do not doubt it. 

Doctors must experiment in order to find out 
the effect of certain medicines in certain cases. 
They also find that the same medicine does not 
have the same effect upon all persons. So they 
must go on with their experimenting, and none 
of them can tell just what effect the medicine 
given will have upon the patient. Our very 
best physicians are those who use the least 
drugs, and I have been told by more than one 
that there is but a small per cent of their 
professional calls where there is any need of a 
doctor at all, but they must do something for 
their patient, so they use something harmless, 
such as bread pills, sugar-coated, and tell them 
when they will be better, giving nature time to 



TRUTH UNVKII.KD. 31 

throw off or correct the trouble, and when the 
patients find themselves well or much improved, 
they are loud in praise of their physician. 

This is all right, and much better than to 
have doped them with obnoxious drugs, 
injurious to the system, or to have done what 
many doctors are charged with doing, which I 
hate to believe, yet fear may be true; that is — 
where they knew they would be able to collect 
— to tamper with the health and even wkh the 
life of a patient in order to run a bill. That is 
almost too inhuman to believe, and if it could 
be proven, should be punished by a term in the 
penitentiary. 

A leading physician of Paris, France, who 
stood near the head of his profession, when 
about to leave this world, was asked by some of 
his admiring friends whom he would recommend 
in his place as a physician, remarked that he 
was going to leave behind three of the best 
physicians the world had ever known. When 
pressed for their names, he said: "They are 
food, water and air," and he should have added 
a fourth — sunshine. 



32 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

Now tins showing may not be the most 
favorable for the doctors, but let me say that 
while I would not be unkind to men of any 
legitimate calling, I am not writing this for the 
benefit of doctors, but for the benefit of the 
common people or the unprofessional; for I find 
it is the people in the common walks of life who 
are more imposed upon by priests — which 
always means preachers as well — and doctors 
than any other class. One reason for this is 
because they are more inclined to rely upon the 
judgment of professional men and look to them 
for counsel and are more confiding, because not 
so well informed as those of a higher education. 

This of course includes many of the world's 
best mechanics and business men, as well as 
farmers and laboring men, throughout the land. 
One reason that they are more confiding and less 
suspicious, is that many of them think that 
most men, like themselves, are honest and 
truthful. Now, I do not wish to convey the 
idea that I think all men of this class are honest 
and truthful — I wish they were. Nor do I wish 
to be understood as asserting that all professional 



TRUTH UNVKII.KD. 33 

men are dishonest and untruthful, for I am 
satisfied they are not; but I wish there were 
none but the honest and truthful. 

The main reason that the former class are 
less informed is that they have been too busy; 
their time and attention having been monopo- 
lized with their business affairs and providing 
for their families for them to have time for 
investigating the more intricate problems oi 
life. For this reason my sympathy is enlisted 
in their behalf, and I want to help them to a 
knowledge of the power within themselves to 
overcome their environments and to attain to 
their rightful position in life and assert their 
rights to health, happiness and wealth, which 
power I am sure exists, as I think I shall be 
able to prove. 



CHAPTER III. 



A Retrospective Glance as to the Bible and the Early 
Influence of the Church. 



TN ORDER that we may be fair in discussing 
this part of our subject, let us take a 
glimpse into the past history of the world to 
see if we find evidence of insincerity on the 
part of those who would be the guardians of 
our spiritual welfare, sufficient to justify us in 
our endeavor to throw off the yoke of fear and 
assert our right to freedom of thought and to 
equal rights to a higher plane in life. 

While I do not wish to incumber my readers 
with a general detail of the past history of the 
race, I want to cite instances sufficient to blaze 
the way from an early date to the present, that 
will show who have been the true friends of 
humanity and have proved themselves the most 
beneficentin promoting civilization and the best 
interests of man. Also who and what power 



Truth unveii^d. 35 

have been most instrumental in checking the 
onward march of civilization. 

In the first place, may I call your attention to 
the book called the Bible, which the priests 
have always palmed off on the people as the 
word of God, and which for thirty years I 
thought I dare not question, until I found so 
many things contained therein that were so 
indecent, so out of harmony with my idea of 
an omnipotent and just God, that I began to 
investigate for myself, and it has been a great 
relief to me to find out that God is not charge- 
able with the horrifying atrocities laid to His 
door by the writers of the book. 

A few citations as to its authenticity : You 
know the five first books, viz., Genesis, Exodus, 
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, are 
attributed to Moses as the author — the book of 
Joshua is ascribed to Joshua, and books of First 
and Second Samuel are ascribed to Samuel, etc. 
Now, it is shown beyond the shadow of a doubt, 
by fair-minded men of high learning, such as 
Thomas Pain, Robert G. Ingersoll and others, 
that it was an utter impossibility for either of 



36 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

these men to have written the books ascribed to 
them, as incidents are recorded in the books 
of Moses that transpired from 250 to near 500 
years after his death. And the same is true of 
the books of Samuel and Joshua. 

A careful reading of those books — laying 
aside prejudice and allowing reason fair play — 
will convince anyone who is seeking for truth 
that God had no hand in the matter; besides, it 
is hard to believe that Moses wrote up his own 
obituary, which he must have done if he was 
the author of Deuteronomy. 

While it is not my intention to discuss the 
authenticity of the Bible, I shall just call 
attention to a few passages and incidents and 
allow the reader to form his own conclusions; 
for I think that if we have been deceived for 
near two thousand years as to the true character 
of this book, it is high time that we were set 
right; for it has been the basic foundation of 
creeds, dogmas and bugbears by the priestcraft 
to scare and force the people into subjection to 
certain faiths or beliefs, which of course requires 
a priest or preacher to interpret or expound to 



TRUTH UNVKIIvKD. 37 

suit his particular notion, theory or church— so 
that each may have a parish, a circuit, a charge 
or a flock to look after and collect revenue 
from. 

Although the commentators, theologians and 
biblical students wrangle, disagree and quarrel, 
and, in times not so very remote, even caused to 
be put to death in the most shocking manner 
those who dared to disbelieve their version or 
interpretation of the Bible; they still palm it off 
on their different congregations as a mass of 
truth or the word of God. 

The compilers of the Bible certainly did not 
make it very clear — perhaps, purposely so — 
and have so emblazoned the pages with head- 
ings, such as "Christ and the Church," "God's 
Judgments upon the People," "Christ our 
Propitiation," "The Servants of God," "Christ's 
Message/' etc., that the unwary reader may 
drink in the error unsuspectingly even at the 
threshold. 

Now, when we consider the fact that these 
promoters of various creeds and sects cannot 
themselves agree as to the meaning of the 



38 truth unveii^d. 

language of this book, that some will interpret 
a certain passage to mean one thing, and others 
of equal learning will interpret it to mean quite 
the opposite, there is reason for us to infer 
that there is something doubtful, and that 
perhaps none of them are right. Certainly, if 
God had directed the writing of the book, it 
would have been done so that all fairly intelli- 
gent people could have understood it and that 
without the aid of an interpreter. But that, 
you see, would annul the priest's office. 

I will now offer for your consideration a few 
passages of what is called the word of God. 
See Deut. 34: 5-12, where Moses wrote up his 
own obituary; Josh. 10: n-14, where it is said 
that the sun and moon stood still at Joshua's 
command, that he might complete the slaughter 
of the Amorites. 

Now, using your own reasoning powers, 
which is easiest to believe? That all nature 
stopped in her course ? The sun stood still — or 
the earth ceased her revolution for twelve 
hours ? 

Consider what must follow such an event, if 



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it should occur for one moment — or to believe 
that the writer of the book of Joshua (for no 
one knows who wrote it) lied or wilfully tried 
to deceive the people? And what do you think 
as to the Lord ordering or directing such 
slaughter and butchery, just to give one party 
advantage over another, and that, too, with no 
provocation in many cases? 

The story of the woman, the apple, and the 
serpent, of Noah and the Ark, of Jonah and the 
whale, might be considered with the same 
degree of allowance. And what do you think 
of the story of Jonah and his gourd ? And his 
conduct as a preacher? His utter disgust at 
God's failure to destroy Nineva after he (Jonah) 
had proclaimed its overthrow ? 

Do we not see exhibited much of the same 
disposition today in some of our preachers when 
they cannot have their own way concerning 
their congregation ? Can } t ou see the hand or 
wisdom of an all-wise creator in these stories ? 

Let us examine some of the acts of Moses 
and other leading lights of the Bible whose lives 
have been held up to the world as examples. 



40 TRUTH UNVEII.BD. 

Now, don't forget that Moses says that he is 
the meekest man upon all the face of the earth 
— that is, if we are to believe what is claimed 
by Bible men, that Moses is the author of the 
book of Numbers, Numbers 12: 3. Now just 
look at Exodus 32: 26-29 — shall I give his 
command ? Here it is : " Then Moses stood in 
the gate of the camp and said, Who is on the 
Lord's side? Let him come unto me.'' Now 
what followed? Why, all the sons of Levi 
gathered themselves together unto him. 

Who were the sons of Levi ? Why, the priests 
of course, see Deut. 1: 1-7. And he said unto 
them, "Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, put 
every man his sword by his side and go in and 
out from gate to gate throughout the camp and 
slay every man his brother, and every man his 
companion, and every man his neighbor. And 
the children of Levi did according to the word 
of Moses." What was the result ? "And there 
fell of the people that day about three thousand 
men." For Moses had said, "Consecrate your- 
selves today to the Lord," etc. 

Now, in all candor, what do you think of 



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such a preacher? What do you think of such 
consecration? And what do you think of such 
a command coming from one who is represented 
to us as being an all-wise, an ever-loving and 
merciful father ? Is it not more like a jealous, 
revengeful human nature than like a divine 
nature? 

Let us examine a little into the life of David, 
a man who it is said is after God's own heart. 
In the first place, let me say that a good way to 
try the metal a man is made of is to place him 
in power and see how he will use it. What 
use did David make of his power ? Among the 
first uses he made of it was to gratify his animal 
passions for pretty women, fine horses and 
chariots, and to distinguish himself as a military 
leader; in all of these he seemed to succeed 
quite well. For he soon had gathered to himself 
several hundred wives, a gorgeous array of 
horses and chariots, the finest to be had in the 
land, and soon distinguished himself as a man 
of war and of conquest. The money poured 
into his coffers from every source, so he was not 



42 TRUTH UNVEIXED. 

lacking in power or means to carry out his 
desire in any direction. 

He conducted some of the most horrible wars 
and slaughters, as you see by reading his 
history while king of Judah and of Israel, and 
while he did a great many benevolent and 
noble deeds, he was guilty of some of the most 
selfish and abominable wicked deeds. 

Notice his vengeful spirit in rather small 
things, as manifested in his contemplated treat- 
ment to Nabal, which was only averted by 
a shrewd and good-looking woman, as recorded 
in First Samuel 25:9-22. Then his weakness 
to withstand temptation or control his passion 
for women and his treachery and wickedness in 
getting out of the scrape, as shown in Second 
Samuel 11: 2-17. 

Although it is said he w r as a man after God's 
own heart, a man guilty of so violating every 
sense of moral justice under the advanced 
civilization of today would be prosecuted for 
adultery and murder, and very likely be 
sentenced to death or imprisonment for life; 
but he being the power on the throne, there 



TRUTH UNVKII.KD. 43 

was none to execute judgment against him; his 
power was supreme. 

It seems as though he was not an entire 
success in raising his family, as indicated in 
Second Samuel 13: 1-17; also in the 15th chapter 
of the same book, where the account of his son 
Absalom's conspiracy is given. 

David's son Solomon was no improvement 
over his father, so far as using his power to 
gratify his own selfish lusts was concerned; for 
he gathered to himself of the beautiful women 
of the land 700, whom he made his lawfixl 
wives, and 300 more that he could use as his 
wives, there being no power to prevent him. 
He is said to have possessed great wisdom, 
but I think his profligate career speaks against 
his wisdom. There being no lack of means — 
for wealth was bestowed on him as on no other 
living man— and no power to hold in check, he 
gratified his every passion and desire to his 
heart's content; and when his physical manhood 
could withstand the strain no longer, it is no 
wonder that he cried out "vanity, vanity, all is 
vanity." 



44 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

Let the reader peruse carefully the books of 
First and Second Samuel, giving reason fair 
play, and consider the blood-curdling, heart- 
rending work of David in his ambitious wielding 
of the sword, the suffering and anguish as a 
result, to helpless women, children and the 
decrepid and aged; then let me ask you again 
in all candor, can you see anything in it that is 
God-like, according to your own views of a 
God, a loving Father ? 

For what are we endowed with these reason- 
ing faculties but to use them in determining 
what is right and what is wrong between man 
and man, and between nation and nation? 
Then let us use them and allow no priest or 
preacher to interpret or do our reasoning for 
us. But ponder these things in your minds 
and look farther through the books referred to, 
for I have only mentioned a very few of the 
atrocious things that those men were guilty of. 

Read the 109th Psalm and see if you can 
discover in it the love, the forgiving spirit, the 
mercy and tender heartedness that would entitle 
David (for it is claimed that he is the author of 



TRUTH UNVEII^D. 45 

the Psalms) to a right to the title of being 
a man after God's own heart. 

I ask you to read without using the church 
glasses, but read for the truth you may find. 

Another man of God, Elisha, was going 
along the road, or through a little town, and 
some little children, as the story goes, came out 
and mocked at him and said, " Go up, old bald 
head." What did that greatest man of God do? 
Did he turn and kindly entreat them, or try to 
teach them better manners ? Not if the story 
be true. But he turned and looked on them, 
not with pitying eye, but cursed them in the 
name of the I^ord, and I suppose told the Lord 
what to do, and the Lord sent two great she 
bears to teach them and they killed or tore 
forty-two of the little children. 

What would the people of this day think of a 
man who would write such foolishness and try 
to palm it off on the people as truth ? 

Then again, Moses and his story of the tables 
of stone and the law, as given in Deut. 5 ? 

I might refer to Peter, who is considered the 
pillar of the church, his cowardice, cursing and 



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denying Christ; and scores of others, for the 
different books abound in horrible deeds of men 
who are held up as examples. 

But I pass on, and in my next chapter will 
consider the attributes of the God of the Bible. 



CHAPTER IV. 

The God of the Bible in the Light of Reason— The 
Atrocities Laid to His Charge — His Share of Booty 
Taken in Battle — His Threatened Uncivil Treatment 
of David's Wives — His Selling of Israel to Their 
Enemies — Evil Results of Religion — Learning Cut 
Down to Suit Religion—Cruel Torture Inflicted on 
Unbelievers — Corruption and Exorbitant Charges of 
the Early Church. 

IN PRESENTING a few thoughts for the 
consideration of my readers upon this 
serious subject, I desire to be fair and candid. 
I have mentioned before that a good way to 
test the mettle of a man was to place him in 
power and watch the results. We have seen 
how some of the leading characters of the Bible 
used their power to further their own interests 
and to satisfy their own lusts. We will show 
something of their works later on. 

Now, how can we better judge of the char- 
acter of a God than by the manifestation of his 
power and attributes as shown by his dealings 



48 truth unveiled, 

with his creatures, and especially toward man, 
the highest type of created intelligence? 

We have been taught from childhood for 
hundreds ot generations that God was ali-wise 
or omnicient; that he was omnipresent — every- 
where at the same time; that he was omnipotent 
or all-powerful; that his attributes were Love, 
Mercy and Goodness; that he was the source of 
intelligence, or intelligence itself. Now this 
kind of a God just suits me, and I believe 
meets the requirements of the world at large. 

Let us see if the God represented in the 
Bible comes up to this standard, and if he does 
not, what then must we do? Denounce God as 
untrue, or decide that the writers and compilers 
of the Bible were false? I say, let God be true 
and every man a liar — if we must so decide 
between God and those to whom the writing of 
the different books of the Bible are ascribed. 

Now, everyone who has read the history of 
the religions of the world knows that every 
nation has had its god; and it has been the 
custom of the people of the different nations 
from time immemorial that the things that the 



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people could not understand or comprehend 
they called God. And they somehow got the 
idea that their god could control their destinies 
and make them prosperous and happy or 
destitute and miserable as he chose. So their 
worship of their god was according to their 
reverence or fear of their imaginary god; and 
their chief object in worship was to appease his 
wrath or disfavor and win his approval or favor. 
And in order to appease this imaginary wrath 
or to gain this imaginary approval, they were 
often led to believe it their duty to pray, to do 
penance, to deny themselves of any enjoyment, 
comfort or pleasure, to offer presents of the 
most beautiful things they possessed, or the 
things that were most dear to them, even to the 
offering of their own children as a sacrifice to 
be burned to a crisp in the red hot arms of an 
iron image of an imaginary god, as in the 
case of Moloch, a deity worshipped by the 
Ammorites. 

The Israelites also introduced the worship of 
this deity, so-called, during their wanderings in 
the desert and after their settlement in 



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Palestine, see Second Kings 23: 10, also Ezek. 

20: 26-31. 

The people of some nations worshipped the 
sun, some the moon, and others the different 
planets or constellations; they worshipped in 
their unripe or infantile condition as a race, a 
river, the source of which was unknown to 
them. They worshipped the monkey, ourang- 
outang, and the different beasts of the forest; the 
ocean, and the Lord only knows what was not 
worshipped by the race in its earliest history. 

The fact is known to every close observer 
who has given the matter any study, that at 
this stage of civilization, the character or 
intelligence of the gods of the different tribes or 
nations never arose any higher than the 
character or intelligence of the people who 
worshipped that god. In other words, the 
people never made a god any wiser or greater 
than themselves. So you will see, if you are 
looking for truth without prejudice, that the 
gods partake largely of the character, the 
passions, and dispositions of the people who 
worship them. 



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That if the people are ignorant, jealous, 
vengeful and fond of war and blood-sheding, 
they have a god of the same character. If 
people believe in slavery and poligamy, their 
god allows and sanctions both; if they believe in 
wholesale robbery, their ends to be attained by 
killing the people, both men, women and 
children, and taking their land, their cattle, 
their horses, asses, sheep, gold, silver, and all 
their possessions — their god not only allows it, 
but will carry the banner and exceed them all 
in slaughter and death, and will want a share 
of the booty. 

If people believe that they have a right to 
gratify the lusts of the flesh and use their 
superior power to compel beautiful women 
whom they admire to submit to their will, why, 
their god will surely interpose that these fiends 
may accomplish their purpose, but he will 
reserve to himself a share of the plunder and a 
fair per cent of the fair maidens who have not 
known man. 

Let us now proceed to examine the attributes 
of the God of the Christian and see if the Bible 



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account of his works and dealings towards tlie 
human race entitle him to our adoration, praise 
and worship, using our own reasoning powers 
to weigh the testimony pro and con, for that is 
the only way we have to decide, unless we adopt 
someone else's opinion. 

The Popish Council at Nice and Laodicea, 
about 350 years after Christ's death, decided by 
a vote of yeas and nays — after throwing aside 
many books that had been written — that the 
books that now constitute the New Testament 
were to be the Word of God, and the books of 
the Old Testament were decided upon much 
the same way by the Pharisees of the second 
Temple, after the return of the Jews from 
captivity in Babylon. We cannot accept this as 
coming direct from God, as we have been 
taught. 

We pass over the meager account of the 
creation of all things, as given in the first and 
second chapters of Genesis. But do you not 
think it strange that God should occupy so 
little space in giving an account of so vast and 
important a matter as the creation of the 



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heavens and the earth and all things therein, 
when so much space is taken up in minor 
matters ? Then think of the idea of an all-wise 
God placing in the Garden of Eden a tree that 
was beautiful to the eye, loaded with luscious 
fruit, and then telling his children that they 
must not eat nor touch the fruit of that tree, 
lest they die, and knowing as he must have 
known the weakness of his children. 

Why should he allow in the garden with his 
children th#t most subtle of all his creation, 
the serpent, to tempt his only daughter to do 
the very thing which she should not do? Can 
you think of any earthly father who would 
treat his children thus ? I have never known 
one. And oh, what a curse he brought upon 
his poor ignorant loving daughter — see Gen. 
3: 16— and to his only earthly son, Adam, what 
a life-long curse he pronounced upon him — see 
Gen. 3: 17-19- 

Honestly now, don't you think it would have 
shown greater love and wisdom not to have 
planted that tree in the garden, or else to have 
kept the snake out? I do. Think of the 



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suffering to all their posterity in consequence 
of that little mistake — if that be the cause. 

Do you not think the Lord showed partiality 
in the case of Cain and Abel's offering ? — see 
Gen. 4: 3-8. Remember Cain was a horticultur- 
ist and farmer, while Abel was a sheep-raiser, 
and each brought the best of their products. 
Just why God should accept Abel's offering and 
reject that of Cain when both, it appears, had 
the same motive, is more than I can understand, 
unless it was that the priest was more fond 
of mutton than he was of grapes or musk- 
melons, and he stood for God to receive God's 
share ; then see the fearful result, Gen. 4: 
8-14. 

Now it appears that God's family increased 
rapidly, and he had a lot of bad boys and some 
unruly girls, and they gave him a great deal of 
trouble, because he could not control them, and 
it worried him considerably as to what he 
should do with them, just as many an earthly 
father has been worried ; and finally he became 
sorry that he had any children, just as many an 
earthly father who found himself in a similar 



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position, some even committing suicide to get 
rid of the care of the family. 

God didn't do that, but he decided just to kill 
off the whole outfit, and as it was an easy 
matter for him to make it rain, he concluded to 
accomplish his object by drowning them — see 
Gen. Chapter 6. But one of the boys was pretty 
sharp and got on the good side of the old gent 
and was provided for and all his sons and their 
families. 

Now, my dear reader, let us reason together 
a little. Did it ever occur to you that this was 
a terrible thing for an omnicient, an omnipotent 
creator to do? Say nothing about a loving 
father — does it not seem strange that he could 
not have hit upon a more humane or better plan 
to have corrected the erring human family 
than this ? 

Why would it not have been much better 
and more humane, if not more God-like, to have 
killed the snake or to have drowned the devil, 
if he or it was the cause of all the trouble ? 

Note this fact that only six short chapters 
are required to give the account of the creation 



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and growth of the world until it was destroyed. 
Ponder these things and reason for yourselves. 

Let us pass on. We now have a new world 
or race, with the righteous Noah and family 
for a foundation or germ for the new world. 

We can hardly consider God a success as a 
family-raiser in his first trial. I^et us see how 
he succeeds in his second attempt. 

We are told later in the Bible that no man 
hath seen God at any time; but here we learn 
that Moses, Aaron, Nadob, Abihu and seventy 
elders of Israel saw the God of Israel — see Ex. 
24: 9-18. 

What do you think of that table of stone 
business, anyway ? Then notice the scheme to 
get the people to give liberally, and don't forget 
that the priest stands ready as God's agent to 
take care of the ford's share — see Ex. 25: 1-19. 

"And the Lord said unto Joshua be not afraid 
because of them; for tomorrow about this time, 
w T ill I deliver them up all slain; and they smote 
all the souls that were therein with the edge of 
the sword, utterly destroying them; there was 
not any left to breathe; as the L,ord commanded 



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Moses his servant, so did Moses command 
Joshua ; he left nothing undone of all that 
the Lord commanded Moses.' ' See Joshua n: 
6-23. 

"And the Lord said unto Moses, whosoever 
hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of 
my book." Now, honestly, does this look like 
the work or the disposition of an omnipotent 
Deity, or does it not seem more like a selfish, 
jealous, barbarous human politician's work, 
who was bent on conquest, no matter what the 
cost in life or property ? 

Here is another striking instance of barbar- 
ity — Num. 25: 4— "And the Lord said unto 
Moses, take all the heads of the people and 
hang them up before the Lord against the sun, 
that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned 
away from Israel." Now, who but a savage, 
ignorant barbarian would take any delight in 
looking upon a lot of human heads strung upon 
poles and hung out in the sun to dry? What 
kind of a God must it be that would require 
such a sight to appease his anger? My! what 
an anger he must have had. 



58 TRUTH TJNVBH,EX>. 

Again, "And Moses and Eleazar, the priest, 
did as the Lord commanded Moses." 

And what was this command ? 

Well, if you will read Num. 31: 25-54, you 
will get the full command and its fulfillment. 
I here give a part of the statement as to the 
distribution of the spoils taken in battle; of the 
675^000 sheep, 72,000 beeves and 61,000 asses, 
and 32,000 women who had not known man by 
lying with him, for all the men and all the male 
children, and all the women who had known 
man by lying with him, were killed. 

The Lord's share of the booty was as follows: 
six hundred and seventy-five sheep, seventy-two 
beeves, sixty-one asses, and thirty-two maidens; 
the rest of the maidens, with the sheep, the 
beeves and asses, were divided out among 
the officers and men according to the com- 
mand. 

Now, the question naturally arises, w 7 hat on 
earth did the Lord want with those sheep, 
beeves, asses, and for what use do you suppose 
he had reserved those fair girls, and why was 
he so particular to take no little boys, or no 



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grown-up or married women, but had them all 
killed? 

I say, does not such conduct seem very 
strange for a God ? 

Shall we allow God to lie under this charge, 
just in order to allow the priestcraft to carry on 
their deception and practice their assessments 
upon their unwary adherants? I say let truth 
arise and shine unto the ends of the earth, if the 
priests have to seek other callings. 

I^et us examine Second Samuel 12: 11. Get 
your Bible and go into a room by yourself, for 
it is not fit to read in company, and if I were to 
have it published in this book, I would not 
dare send it through the mail, for I would be 
in danger of prosecution for sending obscene 
literature. 

Now, what do you think of a God, an all-wise 
being, as the God of the Bible is represented to 
be, stooping to such a low fiendish mode of 
punishment as that ? Admitting jthat David's 
conduct, though a man after God's own heart, 
called for the most severe punishment, think of 
the humility that his wives would be subjected 



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to. Would it not be a greater punishment to 
his wives than to David himself? Are not such 
doings barbaric, pure and simple? And yet the 
writers of the Bible charge God with such 
fiendish debauchery, and then say that we must 
bow down and worship this God or be eternally 
damned. 

We are told that this God is a loving father, 
but if the human race are his creation or 
children, it is impossible for me to harmonize 
that idea with his conduct towards the race — 
see Judges 10: 7— -"And the anger of the Lord 
was hot against Israel, and he sold them into 
the hands of the Philistines and into the hands 
of the children of Ammon." 

Now, remember that the Israelites were 
his favored children and the Philistines and 
Ammonites were among their most bitter 
enemies, yet God got mad at them and sold 
them into the hands of their enemies. Why, 
that is as bad as the worst politician would do. 

What does this God say touching slavery? 
Read Levit. 25: 38-46, where he says you shall 
buy your man servants and maid servants of 



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the heathen and of the strangers that sojourn in 
the land, and they shall be your bondsmen 
forever. 

Were not the heathen and the stranger his 
children by creation as well as the Jews, whom 
he had sold to their enemies? 

Why should he be partial to one class of his 
children? How hard-hearted he must have 
been to send two hungry bears out of the woods 
to kill forty-two of his little children, because 
they were having a little fun with one of his 
big children, who was short of hair, Elisha, 
who got mad and went and told on them. 
Now, was not that whole affair very much like 
some school incident — a big cross boy, or a 
crabbed, cruel teacher? Not much like a 
prophet or a God that had grown up and been 
educated in the nineteenth century, was it? 

This God was a great fighter, too; see how 
he slew the Amorites with a great slaughter 
and threw great stones down on them — see 
Josh. 10: 10-11-42. 

I think that I have made citations enough to 
convince any reasonable person that either the 



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writers of the Bible have misrepresented God 
or that the God of the Bible is not worthy of 
our adoration or worship. And is it not simply 
preposterous that an intelligent priest or 
preacher should insist that the people of this 
nineteenth century should accept this book as 
their moral guide, or that it is the w r ord of God. 
or that such a God as is represented therein is 
entitled to our love, respect, or worship ? 

After carefully reading and using your own 
reasoning power, does it not look like a deep 
laid scheme of designing men, for the purpose of 
gaining influence, power and revenue? 

However, we will pursue this investigation a 
little further. 

See First Samuel 15-3, where God is said to 
order Saul to "go and smite Amelek and utterly 
destroy all that they have; spare not, but slay 
both man and woman, infant and suckling." 
Now, does that sound like an order from a God? 
Can it be possible that this is the work of an 
all-wise supreme ruler of the universe? No, it 
certainly is not. I know it was not my God. 

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the Bible, or, in other words, let us consider 
what has been the moral effect upon the lives of 
the adherents to the Bible system of religion, 
for naked truth is what we want, even if it 
upsets our creed or former faith. 

I do not wish to condemn anything that is 
lovely, that is elevating, or that tends to make 
men and women better or happier, but to ascer- 
tain, if possible, the real truth as to whether 
this religion emanated from a personal God, 
as set forth in Genesis and the Bible generally, 
or whether its effect upon the moral character of 
its adherents would justify us in the conclusion 
that it was an invention of man. Whether, if 
it has served a good purpose in the past history 
of the race, and been an important factor in the 
civilization of the world, is it still able to hold 
its place as such, or must it, like all other reform 
agencies, give place to something more modern, 
or more in touch with the growing intelligence 
of the race ? 

Perhaps the fairest way to judge of this mat- 
ter would be to apply the same rule that we 
would in testing the doctrines of a political 



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party or administration, and give them a chance 
to prove their assertions, or take a time when 
the executive or chief magistrate had a majority, 
at least, of the law-making power with him, so 
that he could carry into effect any measure 
which he thought best for the whole country; 
then the party in power would be responsible 
for the conditions prevailing. So we should 
take a time when the adherents to this religion 
held full sway, no power to oppose them. In 
that case they would be responsible for conditions 
prevailing. Or, take a country, for instance, 
where this religion held uninterrupted sway 
over the subjects for a considerable time — this 
would be a fair test of its moral influence over 
the people — and if we find that during such a 
period the masses, or the whole people were 
prosperous, contented and happy, and the 
tendencies were to a better condition, or to a 
higher state of civilization, then we could truly 
pronounce the system a good one. But if, on 
the contrary, we should find that this system of 
religion should work a hardship to the common 
people, causing suffering and unhappiness, and 



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should lessen freedom of thought with a tendency 
to bar rather than to advance civilization, then 
we should justly conclude that it was a wrong 
system, and needed reforming or replacing with 
a better system of religion. 

Go back with me a few hundred years, and 
let us see what the conditions were when the 
church ruled supremely. We will take as an 
example the condition of Spain, Italy, Ireland, 
Germany and Southern France, from the 
eleventh to the sixteenth centuries, and what 
do we find to be the prevailing conditions 
among the common people ? Why, we find 
that it was a crime punishable by all manner of 
horrible torture and death for any person to 
express their unbelief in the established creed 
or doctrine of the church. 

At this time the church stood at the head of 
government, and dictated the policy of kings; 
in fact, the kings of Israel and Judah were the 
creation of the priests, and were subject to 
them. 

We find that instead of encouraging education 
and learning in the higher branches, such as 



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science, astronomy, etc., the church cut down 
learning to fit their religion, and made it a 
crime punishable by imprisonment, and even 
death, for any who dared to violate the decree 
of the church. 

It was during the latter part of the eleventh 
and twelfth centuries that the most fiendish and 
horrifying modes of punishment were introduced, 
such as the stocks, the thumb-screw and the 
rack. The faggot or burning at the stake was 
also a favorite pastime for those who styled 
themselves the spiritual guardians of the people, 
and whoever was found guilty by the mock 
tribunal of the church dignitaries were thrust 
into the stocks, stretched up by the thumbs, or 
put upon the rack, where their wrists were 
made fast with cords at one end, while their 
ankles were made fast with cords attached to 
a windlass at the other end, and a man, by 
order of the priest, at the crank, would turn the 
windlass until the joints of the limbs and arms 
were pulled from their sockets. 

No pen can describe the horrible sufferings of 
those unfortunate wretches who could not 



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believe in the established church creed, and had 
the honesty and bravery of their convictions. 

From the beginning of Christianity as a 
religion in the church, unbelief was considered 
a crime. In the south of France a proclamation 
was issued by Pope Innocent III, which 
required the priest and two or three laymen of 
each parish to be appointed to examine and 
report to the bishop all who disbelieved and 
dared to acknowledge it. And this decree was 
also adopted in Spain, Italy and Germany. The 
party was arrested, examined secretly, if 
examined at all, and cast into prison to be 
tried at the pleasure of the judges, and receive 
sentence, to be punished according to the 
decision of this holy tribunal. 

Why was learning in the higher branches of 
study prohibited? 

Because the church saw that if the people 
were allowed to think unrestricted, for them- 
selves, that the foundation of their system of 
religion, based, as it was, upon the unreasonable 
theory of the creation of the world, including 
the sun, moon, stars, the firmament, the land, 



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the seas, and all the fishes of the seas, the 
beasts of the field, the fowls of the air, and tke 
crowning creation of man, in six days, as set 
forth in the book of Genesis, and supported by 
the miraculous birth, resurrection and ascension 
of Christ, as set forth in the four gospels, was 
in danger of being upset, and the institution 
that was proving such a wonderful source of 
revenue, influence and power would be in danger 
of overthrow, hence it was to the interest of the 
priestcraft to keep the people in ignorance as 
much as possible. 

History tells us that this was the condition of 
things when the church ruled supremely, and 
it kept growing worse and worse. 

And did you ever think of it, that this very 
state of things existed in the times that we 
vaguely read of as the dark ages, which lasted 
for hundreds of years, variously estimated at 
from near four hundred to one thousand years; 
some authors counting it from the invasion of 
France by Clovis in the year 486 to 1495 A. D. 

History informs us that in Spain alone, 
during the inquisition, there were more than 



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thirty-two thousand persons actually burned to 
death at the stake, for no other cause than 
disbelief in the established creed of the church, 
which was termed heresy. Is it any wonder 
that the race made no perceptible advancement 
along the line of civilization under the baleful 
conditions of the church's misrule? 

In addition to the blighting influence of this 
reign of ignorance, superstition and suffering 
there were religious wars and strife in France, 
Italy, Germany and Spain, but notwithstand- 
ing the determination to keep the people in 
ignorance, reason was doing its silent work, 
only awaiting an opportunity to throw its 
searchlight upon the dark deeds of those 
inhuman self-styled spiritual guardians. 

One thing and another was at work to bring 
about a change that was to break the back of 
the papal power, and nothing was more effective 
along this line than the church's inherent 
corruption, until it became unbearable by many 
of its strongest friends. 

And by no means the least of the influences 
brought to bear to bring about a favorable 



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change was the reformation of Martin Luther. 
Some idea of the extent of the corruption of 
the church may be gleaned from the following 
facts as given by Martin Luther, so far as 
Germany was concerned; and it certainly was 
no better and perhaps much worse in Italy, 
France, Ireland and Spain. 

Luther found that in addition to charging 
exorbitant baptismal fees, death fees, poll taxes 
for each man and woman, and many other 
unnecessary and unreasonable charges, that 
the church dignitaries were selling what was 
termed indulgences — that is, they were selling 
to men the privilege to sin for so much money. 
During the fifteenth century, indulgences 
reached a scandalous height; the sale of pardons 
had become an organized part of the papal 
system. Money was badly needed at Rome to 
keep up the extravagance of the papal court, 
and the priests strenuously endeavored to raise 
money by selling indulgences, charging more of 
course in proportion to the privileges sought 
for and longer time to indulge in those favorite 
sins. 



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Luther wrote ninety-five Theses on the 
doctrine of indulgences and nailed them upon 
the gate of the church at Wettenburg, which 
created a dreadful commotion among the clergy. 
The Theses were taken down and publicly 
burned by one Tetzel, who was quite influential 
and very active in the selling of indulgences. 

Tetzel then wrote a counter Thesis and put 
it up on the gate. The students of Wettenburg 
retaliated, and, at a meeting of students and 
doctors, burned the counter Thesis; then the 
Papal Bull was issued against the great 
reformer Luther. The Bull is always written in 
Latin, except those addressed to the united 
Greek churches. 

The publication of a Bull is termed fulmina- 
tion (from the Latin fulmino, fulminatum — to 
hurl a thunderbolt). The leaden seal of the 
church is appended to a Bull by means of a 
silken cord if the Bull be a gracious one, but if 
it be severe, as in the case of Luther, the cord is 
of hemp. 

This dreaded document issued against Luther 
because of his meddling with the church's 



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nefarious business, was burned before an 
assembly of doctors and students at Wettenbnrg, 

which showed that truth and right had friends 
when they dared to speak out. 

With the searchlight of civilization in the 
last end of the ninteenth century, what is the 
condition to-day of those countries where the 
church dictates to the State? Take, for instance, 
the Philippine Islands while under Spanish 
control. The priests charge, as a baptismal 
fee $25 ; as a death fee, for an adult $60, and $ 10 
for an infant; a poll tax on every man of J25, 
and $15 for every woman; and when a man 
builds a house he must pay $10 for having the 
chimney blessed. 

Between the kings and the priests, or church, it 
seems as though they are bent on making both 
physical and mental slaves of the common 
people. 

Do you not think that we are fortunate that 
our lines have fallen in a land of civilization 
where such religious intolerance cannot be 
enforced? We have outgrown such selfish, 
barbaric ways, and had the priests or preachers 



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a disposition to practice such injustice in this 
country, the people would not submit to it. But 
you can see what the church does where there 
is no power to hold it in check. 

Now, I do not wish to be understood to hold 
that the church has done no good, nor that all 
the church people are bad — far from it, for I 
believe that thousands of our best people belong 
to the church, but most of them would be good 
people anyway, and the church has become so 
civilized that it not only encourages education, 
but builds colleges and other institutions of 
learning, although the main object seems to be 
to educate the young in their own faith, e. g., 
the Baptist institutions aim at making Baptists; 
the Methodist institutions aim to make Metho- 
dists; the Presbyterian, Presbyterians; the 
Congregational, Congregationalists, and the 
Catholic, Catholics, and so on among the 
various sects. And while thousands of older 
persons who do their own thinking, think 
themselves out of the church, there are a greater 
number who allow the priest to think and inter- 
pret for them that are coming into the church. 



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I have called attention to tlie foregoing facts, 
to show the importance of the people thinking 
and reasoning for themselves, so that it would 
be impossible for them to be brought under the 
thraldom of any tyrannical power. 

We have seen that the church will, if allowed, 
wield its power to the advantage of the few — 
the clergy, and to the disadvantage of the many 
— the laity, yet with a pretense that they are 
working for the good of the laity. 

How do the people grow from under, or free 
themselves from, the thraldom oi tyranny? 

Why, by intelligence, or the intelligent use 
of the power within themselves. No outside god 
has, or ever will do it for them. 



CHAPTER V. 

Thought as a Factor in the Race Growth — The Most 
Potent Force in the World — Man Upon Earth More 
Than 100,000 Years Ago — Similiarity of Man and 
Mammal During the Embryo State — Thought a 
Prime Factor in Civilization — The Lever in the 
Progress of Science. 

\\ 7E HAVE seen something of the effects 
* * upon the human race, of stifling thought, 
or hampering reason by prohibiting the study 
of science, astronomy, and the higher branches 
of learning, thereby checking the intellectual 
growth of the race, or, at least, the larger part 
of it, for hundreds of years; almost entirely 
stopping the onward march of civilization, and 
the most astonishing fact is that this was done 
by religionists — persistent church sticklers. 

We will now consider for a little space the 
power or influence of one of the hidden or 
unseen forces as a factor in the race growth — 
that of thought. My object in doing this, as 
in the foregone chapters, is to prepare the minds 
of my readers for the reception of the great truth 



76 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

that I wish to present later on — that of self- 
healing, called by some divine healing, faith 
cure, etc. 

I want to prove to my readers that it is no 
myth, but an absolute truth. It is no miracle, 
but the result of natural law, or the power 
within, when rightly understood and acted upon. 

Let me say right here to start with that 
thought is the most potent force known to the 
world, and has always been the principal factor 
in race growth from man's most incipient state 
to the present, and will continue so to be, up 
the ascending scale or plane, until he reaches 
the divine height or pinnacle of knowledge 
where he will be master of the situation, and 
have complete control of his environments. 

In considering this part of our subject, I 
shall have to consider it from a scientific stand- 
point, and not from the Bible theory of creation; 
for science and geology have proven beyond the 
shadow of a doubt that man is of much greater 
antiquity — at least a hundred thousand years — 
than that given in the Bible history, or story of 
creation. So we shall consider it from the 



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standpoint of evolution; for, whether we like 
it or not, it seems as though that is what we 
will have to come to, for the evidence has, for 
the past fifty years, been accumulating rapidly 
against the Bible theory, and especially since 
1859, when the discoveries of M. Boucher de 
Perthes, a retired French physician at Abbeville, 
was thoroughly investigated by Mr. Prestwich, 
the first living authority on the tertiary and 
quarternary strata; also another scientist, Mr. 
Evans, whose authority was equal to that of 
Mr. Prestwich' s in everything relating to stone 
implements found in the neolithic period. Mr. 
Prestwich read a paper before the Royal Society 
at London, Eng., on the subject, on the 19th of 
May, 1859, which conclusively and forever 
established the fact that flint implements of 
unmistakable human workmanship had been 
found with the remains of extinct species, in 
beds of the quaternary period, deposited at a 
time when the Somme River ran at a level of 
more than 100 feet higher than at present. 

Since that time the evidences have been 
pouring in from every quarter, and unmistak- 



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able evidence exists that man was on the earth 
during the glacial period, which is estimated 
by the best scientific authorities to have begun 
240,000 years ago, and come to its height 
160,000 years ago, and to have passed away 
nearly 80,000 years ago. 

But it was not my purpose to discuss the 
antiquity of man, but to show how he grew. 
So if you desire to investigate the scientific and 
geological facts as to creation, consult such 
works as modern science and modern thought, 
by S. Laing, M. P., and other kindred authorities. 

The establishment of the great antiquity of 
man did not engage the attention of scientists 
and the general public until a recent date; for 
until about forty years ago, or the year 1859, 
it was taken for granted that man was a special 
miraculous creation, altogether distinct and 
superior to that of the rest of the mammal 
world, according to the Bible theory of the 
creation of man. But since the discovery that 
man inhabited the earth more than 100,000 
ago, instead of only 6,000, we can no longer 
accept the Bible theory of creation. 



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Anatomists and physiologists, aided by the 
use of powerful microscopes, have discovered 
that man, like all other animals, is not only 
born of an egg f but the remarkable fact is 
manifested that the human egg is, at its 
commencement, undistinguishable from that of 
any other animal, and remains so for some 
considerable time of its growth, and the earlier 
stages of development are precisely the same. 

Professor Laing, in "Modern Science and 
Modern Thought," describes the egg } or ovum, 
which is the first germ of our existence, as a 
small cell about one hundredth of an inch in 
diameter, consisting of a mass of semi-fluid 
protoplasm enclosed in a membrane containing 
a small speck or nucleus of more condensed 
protoplasm. 

It is a remarkable fact that the brain, the 
eye, the ear and all the organs of the body are 
evolved or developed exactly as they are 
developed in all mammals, from the lower to 
the higher life. The same principles hold good 
as to the inner organs, such as the lungs, liver, 
heart, etc. An illustration of which is found in 



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the fact that the gill arches, or bones that 
support the gill by which fishes breathe, exist 
originally in man and all other vertebrate 
animals above the ranks of fish; but in the 
development of the embryo, they are super- 
seded by the air-breathing apparatus of lungs. 
In fact, every human being, it is said, passes 
through the stage of fish, reptile and the lower 
forms of life before arriving to that of mammal 
and finally to man. Take him after four weeks' 
growth, where the embryo has passed the 
reptilian form, and we find that the line of 
development is the same as that of other 
mammalia; and up to eight weeks' growth, the 
embryo of a man and that of a dog have such a 
striking resemblance that it is almost impossible 
to distinguish between them. The embryo man 
at that age is an animal with a tail almost 
exactly like that of an embryo puppy of six 
weeks' growth. But as evolution proceeds, the 
embryo changes from the general mammalian 
type to the special order of primates to which 
man belongs. 

Then on the theory of evolution, which most 



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men of learning now accept, man is a 
compendium of all that has lived before him; in 
other words, he is all of the lower forms of life, 
or all that has lived before him and more too, 
for he has grown up through them all, and has 
stored in his brain the intelligence, the cunning 
and the instinct and the strength in another 
form; what he lacks in muscular strength, he 
has in strength of mind, and what he has lost 
of instinct, in his upward march he has more 
than gained in the way of reasoning faculties, 
and is still climbing higher and higher in the 
intellectual scale and will continue to do so 
until he reaches the plane, approaching Divinity, 
when he will be able to control his environments, 
or in other words, will so fully understand the 
law of attraction, the law of being, or life, and 
his relation to, or oneness with that law, that, 
as Prof. Tesla says, "he will prolong life at 
will!" 

Let us now notice man's progress by the 
power of thought. Without going back to the 
prehistoric period when his best implements 
were made of flint and other stone, as shown by 



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the discoveries in caves and river drifts of the 
paleolithic and neolithic period, when he was 
groping his way in darkness and ignorance, 
unconsciously, as it were, seeking for light. 
We only go back to the sixteenth century, when, 
through the reformation of Martin Luther and 
other social and political events, the Papal 
power was so crippled that reason was again 
unfettered, and man was allowed to study 
science, astronomy, geology, and other higher 
branches of learning, and not only to study 
them, but was allowed to some extent to express 
his thoughts. 

Although when Galileo published his bulletin 
in regard to the earth being round, hanging in 
space and revolving so as to turn its different 
sides to the sun, he was called down by the 
church — for up to this time the earth was 
believed to be flat, and that man could walk to 
the edge of it — but Galileo published another 
bulletin, showing the planetary system, the 
rotary movements of our earth with its satellite, 
the moon,- showing cause of summer and winter, 
seasons, and length of days, etc. Then he was 



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again called to order by the head of the church, 
and had to desist, or cease his research, at least 
to give expression, to his theory, or loose his 
head; but the idea was out and reason was at 
work, and ere long the church had to fall in 
line with science and the earth was allowed to 
roll on. 

When reason was liberated, science began 
revolutionizing the world. Everything began 
to move up the ascending scale more rapidly 
than ever before. 

There was a great need felt in our mode of 
communication, then printing was brought for- 
ward to meet the demand. Then it was found 
that our mode of locomotion and moving of 
heavy freight, was inadequate, the need was 
only to be felt in order to be met — and Mr 
Fulton comes forwcrd with the invention of 
steam as a propelling power, and our great 
rivers and lakes were utilized as thoroughfares. 

But, as the flood of emigration was pouring in 
to the new world and settling the interior of the 
country, the rivers and lakes were insufficient as 
thoroughfares, to meet the demand— then came 



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the overland railroad, until the commodities of 
the world are laid down, as it were, at every 
man's door. 

Although the means of communication by- 
letter and newspaper after printing was invented 
and steam introduced to hasten the trans- 
mission was wonderfully improved, yet it was 
too slow for the rapid march of civilization. 

Benjamin Franklin had already anticipated 
the coming need, and preparing to meet the 
demand, had discovered that electricity could 
be made a servant of man, so the commu- 
nication of thought by telegraph was brought 
into use. 

Let the reader remember this important fact, 
that in every department of life, the supply is 
equal to the demand, if we have the intelligence 
to bring it forth. 

When communication by telegraph was 
established people thought that we had it down 
near to perfection, but it was soon found that, 
owing to the rapidly growing prosperity and 
industries in the new world, and the growing 
international commercial interests of this 



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country, that we were at too great a distance, 
communicatively, from Europe. And as 
America had become the beacon light, intel- 
lectually, and the power of reason always equal 
to the demand, Cyrus W. Field, in the year 
1858, stood upon the shore of the Atlantic, and 
said, in his mind, we believe more than we know, 
we can, and must have, international cable com- 
munication. Some wise men called him foolish 
— others thought him insane, but reason, the 
God in man, had got fairly started to the front, 
and would not be downed ; the supply of intel- 
ligence always equal to the demand — Mr Field 
finally got others interested in the project, and 
and the result is too well known to need further 
mention. 

The world was astonished at the wonderful 
achievement ; but did it stop to look back at 
what had been accomplished ? No, but true to 
the principle of " onward and upward," which 
has always characterised the human race, it 
goes right on, unfolding the heretofore hidden 
mysteries of the universe. 

Always on the alert with a supply for every 



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demand; it was soon discovered that com minu- 
cation between cities, and between business 
men and friends of the same city, by telegraph, 
was too complicated, causing a special study 
and preparation, hence, too expensive a luxury 
for a large majority of the people, so there was 
a desire for a more simple and cheaper means 
of communication. 

All that was necessary, was to realize the 
need, and the telephone was brought forth to 
meet it, and what a luxury it was for business 
men, professional men, and the commou people 
to be able to step to the telephone and, by word 
of mouth, hold intercourse with their fellows in 
other parts of the city or even in other cities in 
different parts of the country — for distance is 
almost annihilated, so far as communication is 
concerned. 

This achievement was wonderful, in that it 
met a long felt want on the part of the people 
in the common walks of life, as well as being a 
great advantage to the business world ; in fact 
these useful inventions are becoming so common 
that they are not fully appreciated. 



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It looks as though we had reached a point 
where we ought to be satisfied, but are we ? By 
no means. 

It is a great pleasure for us to have an exact 
portrait of our friends hanging in our room, or 
carefully stowed away in a nice album, that we 
may look upon them from time to time and 
behold their exact likeness, and call to mind 
their kind entreaties and soothing words. Or 
we could erect costly monuments — another gift 
of art, in our public parks, in memory of our 
great statesmen, orators, and the sweet singers 
of the world, of whom some of us have had the 
privilege of seeing and hearing, but of whom 
most of the world can only have the privilege 
of reading, and as we sit or stand gazing upon 
these pictures or statues, there came a feeling 
or desire within us to hear the voice of the 
statesman, the orator, a Jennie I,ynd, or that of 
a father or the familiar song of a mother. 
Could this desire in man's nature be sup- 
plied? Most certainly, the demand cannot be 
too great if we have intelligence enough to put 
it in tangible form. 



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To meet this restless, inquisitive, never-to- 
be-satisfied, but constantly growing desire of 
man, Mr. Edison, contemplating what would 
naturally follow along this line, overreaches the 
demand and comes forward with the phonograph, 
the graphophone, the animatoscope, etc., and 
the world looks and listens in amazement and 
wonder; it is now made possible for us to sit in 
our own parlor or at our home and listen to the 
eloquent oratory of a McKinley, a Bryan, or any 
noted orator, behold his face, and see every 
gesture made while speaking. We may also 
listen to the songs of the sweet singers of earth, 
though we may never have had the pleasure of 
meeting them. We may listen to the songs or 
comforting words of father, mother, brother, 
sister, or friend, though they may be far away, 
or even have passed from the shores of time. 
And all this can be reproduced at will, and for 
a lifetime, and then our grand-children can 
listen to the same speeches, the same songs that 
we have listened to. 

Although I never had the pleasure of visiting 
Mr. Edison at his laboratory, yet I have had the 



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privilege of beholding hitn with his working 
garb, moving about his office mixing and testing 
chemicals and experimenting with his apparatus, 
just as if I had been in his laboratory with him, 
and it was so plain and perfect that I think I 
would recognize him if I should ever meet him. 

Do we fully appreciate these most wonderful 
achievements? Why, science has been making 
such rapid advancement and jumping from one 
great discovery to another in rapid succession 
for the last fifty years that the world is no 
longer astonished at the announcement of any 
new great discovery, but instead, is expecting 
and looking for still greater discoveries, and 
will not be greatly shocked at any announcement 
coming from scientific authority. 

The people are now inclined to investigate 
the claims of science, though they may seem 
unreasonable, while a hundred, or even fifty 
years ago, they would only ridicule the idea, if 
it seemed unreasonable or out of the ordinary 
line of events, but the growing intelligence of 
the people is leading them to seek after truth, 
from whatever source it may come, even though 



90 truth unveiled. 

it may revolutionize their former social, political 
or religious views. 

Professor Tesla, a former worker with Mr. 
Edison, is just now making some of the most 
startling declarations relating to the use of 
electricity that has ever come before the people, 
even the scientific world is astonished, at the 
transmission of power or of thought without 
the use of wires. He declares that his late 
invention can be used as a naval vessel destroyer 
and can be operated from the land or on board 
a war ship at a great distance. 

As Mr. Tesla is a scientist of world-wide fame 
no one is ready to dispute his declarations, but 
will await the development of the greatest 
invention known to the world, that of trans- 
mitting thought or holding communication long 
distances without the use of metallic agencies 
as conductors, simply bringing earth, air and 
water to serve as conductors. Mr. Tesla says 
that once man understands the laws governing 
in these matters, the making of the machine to 
act in harmony with them is a comparatively 
easy task; he says that he will supply the Paris 



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Exposition in 1900 with Niagara's power, that 
he will send it across the ocean without the use 
of wires. Let us wait and see if he will succeed. 

Just think of it, in less than 25 years at the 
rate we are going, thoughts will be photographed 
so they can be read, and we will be able to read 
our companions' thoughts before they are formu- 
lated into words. 

Now, I have not even referred to the wonderful 
inventions and improvements in manufacturing 
machinery and farm implements during the last 
century. They are simply marvelous, developing 
from a sharp stick for a hoe and a crooked stick 
for a plow a few hundred years ago, from the 
wooden mould board plow less than 100 years 
ago, and from the hand carded wool rolls to the 
modern machinery and implements of today. 

And what does all this prove? 

To my mind, it proves beyond a question of 
doubt, that man is not the worthless, miserable 
worm of the dust, incapable of doing any good 
or noble thing, except he is moved upon or 
influenced by some outside power, that he has 
been represented to be. It also proves that 



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man has never fallen from a more highly created 
state of intelligence and purity, as we have been 
taught from the pulpit, but has been on the 
upward climb in his unfoldment from the first 
trace of the workmanship of his hands in rudely 
shaping the flints and hard varieties of stone to 
serve his purpose in his pursuit for food and 
comfort, as discovered in the caves and river 
drifts of the glacial period of more than ioo>ooo 
years ago, and a few thousand years later we 
find quite an improvement in his workmanship 
in preparing his flint and stone implements, and 
as we trace him through those prehistoric ages 
we find evidence of constant unfoldment from 
lower to higher, which is shown in his weapons 
of defense, his tools and pottery ware. 

Then the family institution was organized 
with rude structures to live in, and a few 
thousand years later we find that he has adopted 
a form of religion with some vague notion or 
idea of a future state of existence, which is 
evidenced by the fact of his weapons of defense 
and implements for obtaining food being buried 
with the dead. And finally his intelligence 



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increases until he begins to record events, and 
although at times it appears as though the race 
had almost come to a standstill in the march of 
civilization, it was, in fact, only taking a little 
rest, and would surely go forward with renewed 
energy. 

It has continued on the ascending scale and 
will continue so to do until it reaches the plane 
for which it started— that of Divine humanity. 



CHAPTER VI. 

What is Man? — His Power Almost Unlimited— Not a 
Machine Operated by Outside Agencies — His Power 
Comes from Within — He is Allied to, and is One 
with, the Supreme Power — Is but the Visible Expres- 
sion of the Universal Intelligence, the Vital Force 
that Permeates Ail Things that Men Call God— His 
Improvements by His Own Mistakes and the Mis- 
takes of Others, both Individually and as Nations. 

VX/E have now glanced at the early state or 
condition of man and noticed briefly the 
changes in his condition or degree of intelligence, 
as evidenced by the skill manifested in the 
manufacture of implements for obtaining food — 
for that seemed to be the height of his ambition 
or aim for a long period of his existence — and 
his weapons of defense, while in pursuit of food. 
Step by step his growing intelligence can be 
traced until the family is instituted. Then 
social, religious and patriarchal government, or 
regulations were instituted; then monarchical 
government followed; and during all these 



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changes from lower to higher we notice the 
animal propensity in a marked degree. A 
survival of the fittest seemed to be the rule, or 
the party of the greater strength had the greater 
rights. 

This principle seemed to prevail in religion as 
w T ell as in social and political affairs ; but as we 
follow him up the ascending scale, we find that 
he begins to drop the more brutal and selfish 
traits of character, and in his social, religious, 
and political forms of government he begins, to 
some extent, to consider the rights and interests 
of his fellow- — partly because of the leaders' 
disposition to allow it, and partly because the 
masses demand it ; but we must not lose sight 
of this fact, that as we grow in intelligence, we 
grow in civilization, and lose our selfishness. 

Then there is this notable fact, that where 
there is the most religion and superstition, the 
people fare the worst, and make the least 
advancement in civilization. 

Take, for instance, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, 
Italy, and China, then take nations who enjoy 
religious liberty and freedom of thought like 



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our own beloved country, Great Britain, 
France, and Germany, where men have the right 
to think and express their thoughts, and what 
a different state of affairs do we find. 

Why, we have just glanced at the wonderful 
achievements and progress man has made since 
he broke the inthrallment of religion and 
superstitution, and was at liberty to follow the 
dictates of his own reason in the upward climb, 
until we are wont to exclaim in our astonish- 
ment — What is man ? and what his power ? Is 
his power limited? It is limited only for the 
want of the intelligence to recognize what his 
power really is, or from whence he derives it. 

But it is an unmistakable fact, that he is 
vastly more than he has heretofore been 
credited with being ; he has certainly proven 
himself to be not the poor, helpless weakling 
that he has been represented to be from the 
pulpit and by the Church, except he be 
operated upon or influenced by some outside 
power or agency called God. 

There is no question but man, or the race. 
would have been far in advance of what he is to 



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day had he been left free to follow or act upon 
his own innate ideas, and follow where reason 
led, instead of being hampered along this line 
and made to believe, through having been 
taught, that a good act or even a good thought 
were impossible except he be influenced or 
actuated by this mysterious something, and 
that it was dangerous to trust his own 
intuition, but that he should seek light and 
knowledge from outside agencies, and fear and 
tremble before some unknown power and have 
some priest or preacher interpret these 
mysterous agencies for him and tell him what 
to do and where to go, and pay handsomely for 
the advice. 

I say to every young man and every young 
woman, Trust yourself— do right, and do good ; 
because it is right and highly honorable to 
do so ; let no one persuade you that you cannot 
be just, good, moral ; that you cannot do to 
others as you would have others do unto you, or 
be honorable, upright, useful men and women 
unless actuated by some outside agency, j^ou 
know not what. 



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That doctrine is all nonsense, and very 
damaging and belittling, and not worthy to be 
applied to man of civilized countries of the 
nineteenth century. 

Where have our great men obtained their 
power of mind to accomplish the wonders to 
which we have alluded ? Where did Fulton 
get his ideas that resulted in the use of steam 
as a motive power? From whence did Benjamin 
Franklin derive the wisdom that brought the 
lightning or electricity to be an obedient servant 
of man? Or Thomas Pain, Thomas Jefferson, 
Madison, and all the framers of the Declaration 
of Independence and the Constitution of the 
United States ? 

Did those men of large hearts and great 
wisdom go to outside agencies in search of light 
or wisdom to fit them for their task, or did they 
trust themselves, and draw from the fountain 
within, the innate, omnipresent supply which is 
free for you and me and all mankind, to the 
extent of our recognition of the supply, and our 
ability to draw therefrom. 

The same question would apply to Cyrus 



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Field in regard to his great undertaking of lay- 
ing a cable across the Atlantic Ocean for tele- 
graphic communication, or of Edison, Tesla, 
and scores of other scientists, astronomers and 
professors who have been of great service to 
the world by their inventions and discoveries. 
But we never hear of such men seeking know- 
ledge through soothsayers or any outside 
agencies. No, my friends, unless we look 
within and trust ourselves we are apt to be left, 
in fact there is no other place to go. 

There is no source of intelligence of which 
man is not a part. Man is the highest order of 
intelligence of which we have any knowledge, 
in fact we might say that he is an abridgement 
of all below him, having come up through the 
lower order of intelligence he possesses all that, 
and more, and stands at the head of all known 
intelligence, a god — a supreme ruler over all 
created things so far as this earth is concerned. 

Yes, and his intelligence is penetrating far out 
into space, among the glittering worlds of the 
universe, and bringing nearer that which is far 
away ; or, in other words, he is annihilating 



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distance, as it were, by his marvelous 
inventions in order that he may examine into 
the heretofore hidden mysteries of the great 
deep, and that which was far beyond the scope 
of our unaided vision. 

And how remarkable is the evidence of his 
wonderful power of mind ; though he may not 
lay claim to the creation of the mountains, 
the plains, the ocean, the trees, the flowers 
and all that we behold around us, yet 
he is most certainly, a part of, and one 
with the great universal, omnipresent intel- 
ligence or mind, which is the law of life, that 
has created or made manifest all things. 

This body that we call the physical man, is 
but the visible expression of the law of being, 
or vital force that permeates all things, while 
the spirit, the invisible part, or the real man, 
is of the same material and a part of that vital 
force, or first cause that we call God — and is just 
as inseparable from, and as much a part of, the 
universal mind, as the great San Francisco Bay 
is inseparable from, and a part of the great 
Pacific Ocean. 



truth unveii<kd. 101 

Now, you have something of my idea of what 
man is, and of the great power stored in his 
brain. 

The man who is too much of a coward, or too 
timid to rely upon his own ability for success in 
life, or who is wanting to hide behind a devil, 
or make some unseen evil power responsible for 
his meanness, is on the wrong track, and will 
sooner or later awaken to disappointment. 

We have now come to a very interesting and 
important point in this part of our subject — 
What is man? 

I wish iny readers to get as clear an idea as 
possible of the almost unlimited power lying 
dormant in the human brain, in order that they 
may get at least, a glimpse of the great and 
glorious possibilities that lie before them and 
within their reach. And it will also prepare 
their mind for the next great truth that I wish 
to present — that of self-healing or mind-cure, 
adding to yourself beauty, health, happiness 
and wealth or opulence. Yes. and open the 
door of heaven to you and bring it to every 
home; which I know can be done if we rightly 



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understand what we really are and our relation 
to the law of life or being, the omnipresent, 
omnicient, omnipotent, I am. For I am satisfied 
that it is along this line of intelligent, righteous 
thought that our differences between capital 
and labor, our social, political, national and 
international difficulties will finally be satisfac- 
torily adjusted; and man w T ill regard all men as 
brethren, and woman as his equal, which is 
surely true; and the interests of all men and 
women of every station in life will be protected. 

Now, let us examine a few witnesses as to 
what is man, which, of course, includes woman. 
First we will call a D. D. to the stand; one high 
in authority tells us that man was made of dirt, 
and I suppose that God, after he had him 
finished and laid out on the ground, for there 
w r ere no boards then, breathed into his nostrils 
the breath of life and he became a living soul, 
but that he is not capable of thinking or acting 
independently, but must be infused with 
thoughts from God or the devil, whichever 
happens to get hold of him first, or God may 
control him for a while and fill him with good 



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thoughts, and his deeds and life will correspond, 
then turn him loose and the devil is there 
waiting for him, and takes him in hand and 
fills his mind with evil thoughts and his deeds 
and life correspond, as in theother case, virtu ally- 
admitting that man is but a tool or machine 
operated by some outside power; hence he ought 
not to be held responsible for his thoughts or 
acts; yet this D. D. is going to have a large 
majority of the world, or Adam's descendants, 
eternally damned for unbelief, or disobedience, 
which I think will be rather harsh treatment to 
say the least, under the circumstances. 

Another D D. of equal prominence and quite 
as high an ecclesiastical authority, just as 
familiar with Hebrew, Greek, Latin and the 
Bible, and just as sincere as the first, but perhaps 
of a larger heart and broader mind, takes the 
stand, and what is his testimony? Why, he 
tells us that we are not to take as literally true 
the Adam and Eve story as to the creation of 
man, nor the Garden of Eden story, the Noah 
and his ark story, the Jonah and the w T hale 
story, or Joshua commanding the sun to stand 



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still while lie slaughtered the Amorites, and its 
obedience ; the Job and his afflictions and final 
triumph, and many other Bible stories; for they 
are not in harmony with philosophical truth; 
but were only allegories, teaching beautiful 
and instructive lessons. 

But it requires a priest or preacher to interpret 
or explain the lessons taught, and each sect 
have their own interpretation. He also discards 
eternal punishment as not only un-Godlike, but 
inhuman, and leaves us still at sea regarding 
the origin of man, or what he is; but he asserts 
that the great active achievements and inven- 
tions of man could not have been accomplished 
by finite mind alone. 

Now, let me ask, Can any D.D. or any other 
person draw the line where the finite mind 
ceased and the infinite began, along the line of 
the great achievements of man? 

Take as examples the X ray, the graphophone, 
the phonograph or some of Mr. Tesla's late 
inventions, though there are many others that 
were just as wonderful at the time of their 
discovery as these, but the human mind is 



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prepared for, and expects still greater things all 
the time. 

And will any one say that such results could 
be produced without the aid of the supreme 
mind? 

No, all must confess that these marvelous 
results are not the work of finite mind alone ; 
yet no one is able to distinguish between, or 
draw the line where the finite ceases and 
infinite begins. 

Now what does this prove? Simply this, 
that it is all one and the same. That every 
human mind, yes, every individual mind, is but 
a part of the great ocean of mind; just a little 
graft, as it were, or part of the great whole, the 
omnipresent intelligence that fills all space, the 
vitalizing power that runs through every living 
thing, from a blade of grass or a tiny flower to 
the giant oak or pine of the forest ; and from 
the smallest insect to man. 

Now let us hear thet estimony of Reason on 
the subject. 

By the way, Reason and Conscience are 
brother and sister. While Reason occupies the 



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seat of judgment to decide intricate questions 
that arise in the human mind, Conscience sits 
upon the throne of justice to decide what is 
right. 

Reason says that it is not possible that man 
was God-made at the recent date given in the 
Bible — his accredited word ; for scientific and 
geological research has demonstrated the fact 
beyond reasonable doubt, that man was on the 
earth more than one hundred thousand years 
prior to the Bible account of creation ; so we 
cannot accept the testimony of the first D.D. 

Reason teaches, furthermore, that if an all- 
wise God had made a man and a woman, and 
placed them in a beautiful garden, in the midst 
of lovely flowers and trees, with delicious fruit 
to eat, and every thing fair to look upon and 
that was necessary for their perfect happiness, 
father-like, as the Garden of Eden is described 
to have been — that he would not have made a 
devil in the torm of an ugly serpent and put him 
in the garden for company for his children, or 
even allowed him to be with them unless he 
knew that he had fortified his children with 



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sufficient moral power to withstand all the 
hurtful influence he might bring to bear upon 
them. 
And Conscience coincides with Reason. 

In fact, Reason cannot see the need of having 
made a devil at all ; it argues, too, that if God 
did make Adam and Eve and place them in the 
garden as stated, and then made a devil and put 
him in the garden with them, or allow him to 
be in there with them, and that they were 
beguiled and led astray by his tricks and 
shrewdness, as they went on multiplying and 
replenishing the Earth according to directions ; 
that a God, who was all-powerful and carried 
his plan and work of Creation thus far, 
and found that his whole family had gone 
astray ; that he could and would, have 
instituted a better method of correcting their 
mistakes than by causing a great flood and 
drowning them all, except Noah and his family. 

And Conscience responds — That's right. 
Only think of such a horrible thing for an 
all-wise, omnipotent God to do. 
Again, Reason teaches us that if man came 



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upon the stage of action ready made, by God, 
that he would have been a perfect man, ripe in 
judgment, ripe in wisdom, with fully developed 
intellectual faculties; ready to engage in the 
business of beautifying, and developing the 
resources of earth. 

But is this according to his introduction into 
the world? By no means, but to the contrary; 
from his most incipient state to the present, we 
find him a creature of intellectual growth. 
First, as a dweller in caves, seeking food from 
the streams, along the sea coasts, and from vine 
and tree, and such animals as he could capture, 
and even devouring his kind, in his ignorant 
and uncivilized state. 

But we find that he possessed an innate 
desire for higher ground, or attainments, which 
caused him to struggle on through the long 
dark valley of ignorance, and the jungles of 
savagery, and over the hills of barbarism, to 
where we find him today. 

For a long period of his existence, he no 
doubt followed unconsciously the promptings 
of his animal instinct; but as his brain, which 



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is the positive poll of the man, grew, he gradu- 
ally began to reason as to how he might be 
able to better supply his needs, and the more 
he used his brain, the faster it grew, like the 
muscles of the blacksmith's arm, until he 
reached the plane of consciousness, and began 
to realize something of his ability to improve 
his condition. 

He began to reason now as to how he might 
be able to help others to better their condition, 
always keeping an advance guard on the out- 
skirts, looking for higher ground and better 
opportunities, steadily improving by his mis- 
takes, and the mistakes of others; one man 
adapting the better plan of his neighbor, one 
community adapting the more advanced regula- 
tions of another community or city. 

One nation on looking around finds another 
nation with institutions much in advance of its 
own and improves the opportunity to better 
its condition by adopting new regulations; thus 
advancing up the ascending scale by improving 
on their own and others' mistakes. 

Perhaps one of the most remarkable advance- 



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ments recorded of any nation, intellectually, 
was that made by Japan; when in her edu- 
cational development she jumped at one mighty 
bound from the fifteenth to the nineteenth 
century. That is, from their investigations 
made in America, Great Britain, and those 
countries of greatly advanced facilities, became 
awakened to the importance of improvement 
along this line, so she adopted plans sur- 
prisingly liberal, comprehensive and wise, 
which brought her four hundred years in 
advance of her then present system. 

Thus the race is constantly marching up the 
intellectual plane, until its advance guard who 
are now veritable intellectual giants, are gaining 
the mountain top from whence they get a 
glimpse of the fulgent light and glorious 
possibilities that await us just ahead. 

In fact, some of us are now beginning to 
gather the rich fruits of intelligent thought as 
the result of these labors, as I shall show in 
the next chapter. 

What we now want is to help hasten the 
time when the masses shall see the light and 



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know the truth of the grand possibilities that 
lie within their reach. 

But to the point. Does not Reason plainly 
teach that man is a growth, and not a lump of 
dead clay infused with spirit or mind from an 
outside source or power? Watch the infant as 
it grows and develops into manhood or woman- 
hood; and notice this fact that as the physical 
grows or develops, so the mental grows and 
develops — not always in exact proportion, it is 
true, but no child has a ripe adult mind, and 
some seem never to mature in mind to any 
great extent, simply for want of culture; while 
if infused by God, as some claim, it should be 
mature and perfect. In fact, I believe Reason 
bears us out in the assertion that man is all 
mind, and that there is no absolutely dead 
matter. 

Mind permeates all things and is the vitilizing 
or life-giving power, and is expressed in different 
degrees of awakening or latency — man having 
reached the highest degree of awakening or 
intelligence of all visible things, and is all of 
the same material, both body and soul, or mind, 



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but of different degrees of latency. The brain 
is the positive poll or the more awakened, and 
the body is the negative poll or less awakened. 

If this is not true, why is it that man 
transmits to his offspring traits of character, 
tastes or turns of mind, such as a musical, 
literary, or business turn of mind, criminal turn 
of mind, or love for the good, the beautiful and 
such like inherited traits, as well as an image 
of his own features and complexion? 

This fact is also noticeable in the lower 
animal kingdom as well as in man. And do 
we not see unmistakable evidence of mind or 
intelligence in the vegetable kingdom? 

Most assuredly we do if we look for it. Have 
you ever noticed how the little vine will send 
out its tendrils in search of something to climb? 
And if you plant a stick within reach for that 
purpose that it wall be sure to find it, and then 
how tenaciously it will cling to it? 

Just notice carefully the ivy as it climbs up a 
brick or stone wall; how every few inches it 
sends out its little claspers that fasten on to 
the wall with such firmness as to make it almost 



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impossible for the wind to dislodge it in its 
upward growth, and where most exposed it 
takes greater precaution and sends out more 
and stronger claspers. 

Do you see no evidence of mind there? Did 
you ever experiment with or investigate the 
beautiful, timid, little sensitive rose that grows 
upon the plains of Kansas and Nebraska and 
other parts of the country? And see how, if 
you touch one tiny leaf that every leaf on the 
limb will quickly fold up as if in fear of an 
enemy? Or read of some of the tropical plants 
that when an intruder comes in contact with 
them, they at once fold up enclasping the 
intruder in their embrace, crushing to death 
and holding it tightly, until it is absorbed as 
food? Can you say there is no evidence of 
mind there? No? Surely there is unmistakable 
evidence of mind. Then in the more inert 
mineral kingdom, scientists who have given 
the subject a great deal of study and attention, 
and experimented with powerful microscopes, 
claim that they find evidence of mind even here. 
And one German scientist, who had been 



114 truth unveiled. 

watching with great and untiring interest the 
unfolding development of a diamond — the 
hardest of the precious stones — astonished the 
world about a year ago with the declaration 
that diamonds not only had life, but actually 
reproduced. This was a startling announce- 
ment, it is true; but many scientists, geologists 
and other professional men and women have 
come to the conclusion that life, love and mind, 
or intelligence, permeate all things and are 
everywhere present, and that man is the highest 
order of intelligence known to the world. 

So I believe, and will leave him at this point. 



CHAPTER VII. 

The Power of Thought to Heal the Sick and Shape our 
Destinies — Mind more Powerful than Electricity — It 
Can Renew our Youth — it Can Certainly Prolong 
Life — It is Able to Cure Cancers and Rebuild 
Tissue — It is Able to Bear the Healing Balm and the 
Olive Branch of Peace and Good Cheer to others. 

I TRUST that I have enabled rny readers to 
realize that man is all mind and that the 
body is but the negative poll of man, or the 
visible expression of the law of life or being, 
as it is the law's only means of expressing or 
manifesting itself in man. In other words, man 
being a compendium of all life below him, hence 
the highest manifestation of intelligence, he is 
the law's highest recognition of itself. 

While we cannot see the law, or the cause, 
we can see the effect, or expression of the law — 
neither can we see heat, but we can see light, 
which is the effect, or heat's recognition of 
itself; then if man is the law's recognition of 
itself, he is manifestly one with the law — God. 



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What does that mean? A wonderful truth 
indeed. 

What ! asks one, Do you mean to say that 
man is one with the omnipresent, the omnicient, 
the omnipotent, the universal spirit of love and 
intelligence that created all things? 

Yes, that is just what I mean to say, and that 
his power is only limited according to his intel- 
ligence to recognize his relation to, or oneness 
with the omnipresent life principle that men call 
God? 

Now, let us proceed to consider the possibilities 
of man from the standpoint or basis of the 
power of thought. For it is my desire, and 
main object in writing this book, that all its 
readers may not onl}^ attain to the benefits, 
freedom, and power, and happiness in conse- 
quence of a knowledge of that pow r er, that I 
enjoy, but vastly more, for I realize that I have 
only gone a little way up the shining way that 
will lead to greater lights and broader plains of 
glorious possibilities — as I am able to shake off, 
or break away from my inherited beliefs and 
and the effects of my early erroneous teachings 



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that have clung to me — by following where 
Reason leads. 

But let us now reason together as to this 
mighty force called Thought. 

Yes, it is one of the hidden forces that has 
heretofore been so little understood, but when 
understood, the knowledge is of incalculable 
value to man ; it must be admitted to be the 
most potent force of which we have any know- 
ledge, and what we want to find out is how to 
use it to the best advantage of all concerned. 

Electricity is one of the powerful hidden 
forces lying concealed around us on every 
hand — in earth and air, in the ocean deep, yea, 
within us, and yet until recently we knew 
nothing of its wonderful power, or that it could 
be made to serve man to such great advantage 
as is being done today; and its use for the 
benefit of man is yet in its infancy. 

Now, what has wrought this wonderful change 
and brought this once unknown force to be an 
obedient and marvelously useful servant of 
man? Simply Thought, the organized mind of 
man. And what does this fact prove? It 



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certainly proves this, that while electricity has 
been considered the most powerful of the hidden 
forces, it is not equal to the power of thought, 
the organized mind of man, which is able to 
control and direct electricity to do his bidding. 

To illustrate, while electricity will travel from 
San Francisco to London or around the globe in 
an almost incredibly short time, it remains for 
thought to perform the same journey in less 
than half the time. 

Or what great work of reform or literary 
production that is not directly the result of the 
power of thought? Certainly none. 

Take as an example the suspension bridge at 
Niagara Falls, the great Brooklyn Bridge, or 
the most marvelous architectural structures of 
the world. They existed in thought, generated 
from some man's brain before they were made 
manifest or apparent. This, I think, is sufficient 
to show the wonderful power of thought. So 
we will now consider how to use this power to 
our greatest benefit and the good of our fellow- 
men, and, in doing so, I shall endeavor to 
present nothing but absolute truth; for I want 



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everyone to know the truth, and I know the 
truth will make you free, and that means a 
great deal in this connection. 

Thought is the motive power that moves the 
world; not, of course, the meaningless thought 
that soars about aimlessly seeking nothing and 
not trying to accomplish anything; but positive 
organized thought, that has an object in view 
and realizes its power to accomplish its desire. 
It is able to control the body which is the more 
negative part of man; it is able to make you 
sick; it is able to make you miserable ; it is able 
to change your features and make you look 
hard, cross, homely, or coarse; yes, it is able to 
make your whole life disagreeable to yourself 
and all who come in contact with you; it does 
all these things. 

On the other hand it is able to make you well 
and fortify you aganist the hurtful power or 
influence of the elements; yes, and it is able to 
bear the healing balm, or thought, from you 
who are so fortified, being of the positive — to 
your more negative brother or sister, though 
they may be far separated from you. It is able 



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to make you happy and cheerful, and you may 
send the olive branch of peace, happiness and 
good cheer, upon the balmy wings of your 
positive thought, to your more unfortunate 
brother or sister, who are negative to you, even 
though they are far from you. 

Yes, and it is able to make you like a huge, 
exquisite bouquet of flowers, that freely gives 
out its fragrance and beauty to all, without 
reserve. I^ike it, you, imbued with divinely 
pure and positive thought, make everyone 
with whom you come in contact, feel more 
cheerful, happy and fearless. 

Why, I have known business men who were 
discouraged with the outlook, and had yielded 
to what is known as the blues, frequently ask 
me to come and visit them, as they always felt 
better, and in some instances they said it lasted 
for two or three days, without any effort on my 
part to infuse that feeling, but, being of that 
positive nature, and recognizing nothing but 
good, I had nothing but good to give out, you 
see, and the negative is always to be benefited 
by coming in contact with the positive; espe- 



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cially if the positive has attained to that high 
plane where he or she realizes that all is good, 
and man a universal brotherhood. 

Yes, and this is able to change your features 
or expression of countenance, if it is not to 
your liking, and give you beauty for harshness, 
and intelligent loveliness for vagueness and want 
of expression. 

It is also able to change your life from one of 
disappointment and failure, to one of satisfac- 
tion and success, or prosperity. 

Yes, I know positively that it is able to do 
all these things, and more too, for I know that 
it is able to open the avenues of life and give 
you youth for age, or renew your youthful 
feelings and appearance. 

This I know from experience, although I was 
over fifty years of age when I called back, or 
renewed my youth, and though it has been a 
number of years, my friends say I don't look a 
day older than I did fourteen years ago, and I 
am sure I feel twenty years younger then I did 
then ; and I firmly believe that we have the 
power, when we fully understand the law 



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governing, to prolong or retain our youth. But 
just how long this can be continued I am not 
prepared to say — but I see no reason why, when 
we fully understand the law of life or being, and 
our true relation to, or oneness with that law, we 
should not be able to prolong it indefinitely. 

Did you notice the startling declaration made 
by two of the world's leading scientists, 
Messrs. Tesla and Virchow, at the International 
Convention of Scientists held at Moscow a little 
over a year ago? Mr. Tesla, I believe, made the 
statement and Mr. Virchow acquiesced. It was 
this : — "The time is not far distant, even 
while some of you gentlemen who sit in 
this convention are still upon the stage 
of action, when man will so thoroughly under- 
stand the law of life and his relation to it 
that he will prolong life at will." 

This is a most startling announcement, I 
know, and will be believed by comparatively 
few at present; but Mrs. Helen Wilmans, a 
noted writer on mental science, and many others, 
are firm in the same belief; and from my own 
experience and the light of reason, to my mind, 



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it is far more reasonable and acceptable than 
the dogmas of orthodoxy or the church. 

And since science or reason is no longer 
barred or hampered by the church we are 
making such rapid progress that we are ready 
to expect wonderful things ; though they are 
out of the ordinary line of events. 

But let us pass on to notice the power of 
thought to heal the sick, and how it is done. 
It is no longer doubted by fair minded persons 
who have taken the pains to investigate or 
inform themselves, that there have been, and 
are being, performed extraordinary cures by 
Christian scientists, mental scientists, and so- 
called Divine healers. Although many of the 
medical fraternity try to deny the truth of these 
statements and are trying in every way to 
discourage any belief in the power to heal 
without drugs or medicine, yet we do know that 
it is an absolute truth. 

There are too many well authenticated cases 
coming under our own observation, and that of 
the people generally, for the truth of it to be 
denied. 



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Of course, it is to the interest of the medical 
fraternity to work against a movement that is 
destined to greatly reduce their source of 
revenue and support. But the world must 
move on, and all obstacles must give way to 
the onward march of Truth and Reason. It 
will take the world a whole century and more 
to repay in gratitude Mrs. Eddy, Christian 
Scientist, and Mrs, Helen Wilmans, Mental 
Scientist. 

Yes, and there should be an enduring monu- 
ment erected to their memory for the good they 
have done for suffering humanity and the 
influences set in motion by them that are 
destined to bless the human race for all time. 

Let the croakers croak and the critics grumble, 
but let the good work go on, and let us rejoice 
for the dawning of the day when disease can be 
banished or guarded against by the power 
from within, and without the use of drugs. 

Now, while we have Christian Science healers, 
of whom Mrs. Eddy is the foremost, and Mental 
Science healers, of whom Mrs. Helen Wilmans 
is the most prominent; and there was a Divine 



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healer, so-called, who performed wonders at 
Denver, a few years ago, by the name of 
Schlater; and many others throughout the 
country; and one Francis Truth, just now in 
San Francisco from Boston, that is attracting 
considerable attention as a Divine healer — 
after a careful study of the various methods 
by the different healers, backed by my own 
experience and the light of reason, I am fully 
persuaded or convinced that the power employed 
by all is about the same, although perhaps 
differently understood. There is no miraculous 
power connected with it; it is but the result of 
natural law rightly understood. And I am 
satisfied that many remarkable cures have been 
performed by persons who did not understand 
from whence the power was derived, supposing 
it to have been some power outside and separate 
from themselves. 

Now, I am going to impart to my readers 
what I know about this wonderful power of 
self-healing and the healing of others. 

It is to your advantage to know that this 
power is within you, and I wftat you all to 



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thoroughly comprehend this individual^. You 
may call it Divine hnmanity or human Divinity, 
or what you will, but when you understand it 
you will know that the power is from within — 
a recognition of your oneness with the all 
powerful — the I am, or God in man. 

The teaching of the church has been that man 
is but a worm of the dust, with no power within 
himself to do or even think good, until most 
people more than half believe it, and make no 
effort, in fact they think it would be wrong to 
attempt to do a great or good act without calling 
upon some imaginary god to help, and then they 
must be very careful to add: u Not my will, but 
thine be done," therefore they never do very 
much. 

The reader will remember that in a former 
chapter I spoke of four little children that had 
been given up to die by the attending physician, 
but were restored to health without the aid 
of medicine, in fact, there would have been 
danger of strangulation in attempting to put 
medicine down their throats. I stated that I 
attributed the apparently miraculous recovery 



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to the direct answer to prayer ; but that later I 
would give my present opinion, after years of 
experience, study and investigation along this 
line. 

In the first place, I want to say, that my life 
and my daily walk was such that I felt I was 
entitled to the benefits of the promise of Christ 
as given by St John, where he said, u If ye 
abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye 
shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto 
you." 

I was daily asking God's blessing upon my 
neighbors and all that I did, and I was 
prosperous and happy as a king, at peace with 
all nations, for I did my duty to the best of my 
ability, and gave God the credit for my 
prosperity. 

I was frequently called to visit and pray with 
the sick and dying, and invariably succeeded in 
scattering the clouds of darkness and fear, 
enabling many to die in peace, and, in some 
instances, exultant. 

This is not said boastingly, I was simply per- 
forming a delightful duty. Though I was poor, 



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I never felt poor, but always had a desire to 
help those who seemed to be struggling with 
poverty. I expect this to be read by many of 
my former neighbors and friends both in Iowa 
and Kansas, and they will bear witness to the 
truth of my statements. 

Now, as to the two little children of my 
neighbors, I felt that I had a right to ask God 
to restore them to health for their weeping 
parents' sake, as it was not for my own benefit 
or comfort. 

But when I went to pray for the restoration of 
my own dear little boy and girl, it was quite 
different. 

There was presented to my mind the teach- 
ing from the pulpit from my boyhood, that this 
was for my own comfort, and the love I had for 
my dear children and my sorrowing wife, their 
mother; so I must say, u Thy will, not mine, 
be done." Oh, how I wanted to say it must be 
done, for I was abiding in Christ, and his 
words were in me; but no, I must say, "Thy 
will, not mine;" yet I felt sure that if I could 
set aside that — "Thy will be done," my 



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prayer would be answered; so there was a 
struggle, apparently, between myself and God, 
but it was really between the I am, or God in 
me, and the dogma of the priestcraft. My 
sorrow grew more bitter as I looked upon the 
faces of my unconscious children, and the 
struggle within me was fierce, for I felt sure 
that if I dared to ask without the appendage 
— "Not my will, but thine, be done," — the 
restoration of my children was sure, and I went 
from the house again to my place of private 
intercession. 

On my way I thought of Christ's sympathy 
for the bereaved, and his restoration of the sick 
and dead to life and health, as recorded by the 
Evangelists, and just set aside the church 
dogma, and said in my mind, I have a right to 
ask or even demand that my children be 
restored and will act upon my right. So when 
I dropped upon my knees, I felt that my prayer 
was answered before I had uttered a word, and 
when I returned to the house, to my joy — and 
some surprise— my little girl opened her eyes, 
and they met my own with an expression of 
recognition. 



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A speedy recovery of both children followed. 
And I have learned that man need look for no 
higher power for help in this life than the 
power within. For there is no power that man 
is not identified with. 

But we need more to study what we are, and 
the almost unlimited power of our own thought 
or mind, it being one with the supreme mind. 

This is a great truth that has been veiled to 
the world during all the past ages, but is now 
being unveiled by the advance guard of intel- 
ligence, and the whole people are about to enter 
upon an era, that for magnificence of power, 
self reliance, justice to all mankind, and hence, 
happiness for all, the world has never known. 
Because the people are finding out the truth as 
never before, and cannot be duped so readily, 
because they are learning what, and who they 
are, and their relation to the law of love. 

Intelligence, of course, will not unfold in the 
same degree to all, but according to the 
intelligence enabling them to recognize the 
truth. But it will unfold to all, as fast as we 
are ripe or ready for it. 



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But I will go back to the power of thought 
to heal. 

You see, as soon as that erroneous idea "Thy 
will be done" was set aside and my own will 
came into play, untrammeled, the work was 
done; my positive thought or will was able to 
remove the fever and physical trouble, it being 
negative to my will or mind. And now I 
remember that when I thought I had received 
a direct answer to prayer, which was many 
times, it was always when I had asked without 
a doubt that it would be done, unconsciously 
allowing my own will or wish to predominate. 

Much of our Bible was evidently written by 
designing men with a view of veiling the truth 
and deceiving the people and to frighten or lure 
the many into subjection for the benefit of the 
few — the priestcraft — to give them power, 
influence and revenue. If this is not so, it has 
certainly been woefully misinterpreted. 

The Bible idea of God is certainly very 
misleading, as it conveys the idea to us that he 
is a personage with body and parts, sitting 
upon a great throne somewhere in space, ruling 



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the destiny of man as with an iron rod; while 
reason unveils the truth that God is intelli- 
gence, love, mind or spirit, the first cause — 
life that invades and permeates all things — 
law. And man is the highest representative of 
the law, because his intelligence is beginning 
to recognize his oneness with the law, hence 
his power to accomplish the mighty things that 
are being done. And this is the sequel to all 
Divine healing, Christian Science healing 
and Mental Science healing. It is mind power 
healing — the positive wielding its power over 
the negative. 

Let the reader remember this fact, that all 
who believe in or fear and expect disease are 
negative to those who do not believe in or fear 
disease; therefore, whoever has studied this 
law and has given attention to the concentration 
of thought can invariably help or heal any 
person who comes or looks to them to be healed 
or helped, whether it be physical or mental 
weakness, or negation. 

I will give you an illustration: There is a 
professional nurse in Oakland, an excellent 



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lady of forty or fifty years, whom I learned from 
an interview had studied something of this 
great truth, and had used the power quite 
successfully in her professional duties. Upon 
one occasion she was attending a very difficult 
and obstinate case of internal abscess. She 
explained matters to me, and I perceived that 
she was greatly troubled, so I determined to help 
her. though unacquainted with the party that 
was sick, or even her name. So without saying 
a word or hinting at my determination, I just 
concentrated my mind to strengthen and 
encouiage her. 

It was perhaps a month before I saw her 
again. Asking her about the case, she said: 
"Oh! the woman is well, I got along splen- 
didly.'* I told her I had tried to help her in 
the case. "Oh, sir!" said she, "I knew it. I 
felt the influence just as strongly as if you had 
been standing by my side, and you don't know 
how much it helped and strengthened me." 
She is a widow and is supporting and educating 
her two children. 

She had more trouble a short time ago, on 



134 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

account of a doctor being called in a case of 
confinement, where she had charge of the 
patient. The doctor is one of those selfish, 
narrow-minded beings, who is afraid of the 
growing knowledge of this most wonderful 
truth. He knew of her success and wished to 
injure her and influenced the husband of the 
sick woman — who was doing nicely — to get 
another nurse, although the widow had refused 
one or two good cases so as to be able to attend 
to this one. 

After she had been there three days, she was 
discharged and another nurse installed; a thing 
that had never occured before in her experience. 
She was all upset, and having refused work for 
nearly two weeks, holding herself in readiness 
for this case, her means were exhausted; and in 
her anxiety, she started for my house, though 
she had never been there before. My daughter 
and I had just started for town and meeting 
her a few blocks away, we noticed that she 
looked troubled. I asked her if she had been 
going to our house, and learning that she had, 
returned with her. 



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On reaching home she broke into tears, and, 
when she could talk, related her experience. I 
saw that she had been wronged and told her to 
dry her eyes and cast the trouble aside as a 
thing of no benefit, for there would be a 
reactionary vibration and that all would be 
made right. 

My daughter, who is full of the truth, joined 
in with me to calm the troubled mind and set 
her some dinner, for we found that she had 
eaten nothing since the previous evening, and 
it was now 2 o'clock p. m., and before she was 
through her dinner her courage and strength 
returned to her, and she was again exultant. 

She was to stop on her way home to see the 
family, so we brought our force of mind to bear 
for a peaceful reception and that right should 
prevail. 

Next morning we received a note from the 
widow stating in joyful terms that she was 
cordially received and the husband had paid her 
$25, nearly the full amount she would have 
received for the whole time had she stayed. 

I merely relate this incident to show what we 



136 TRUTH UNVKII,3D. 

may do to help others in trouble; and when you 
get the light, don't be too stingy withit, but let 
it shine through your life and help to unveil 
truth. 

It is not really necessary that the healer, or 
the one who speaks the healing word in mind or 
thought, should see the patient in order to heal 
them ; but I think in many instances it would 
prove advantageous, and especially if it is the 
patient's w 7 ish, for where the vibrations are in 
unison the conditions are more favorable • nor 
is it absolutely essential that the patient is aware 
that he is receiving treatment, although I am 
sure that we can secure the best results if the 
patient is acquiescing in the treatment ; and 
w T here there is a known unwillingness, or a 
repellent vibration on the part of the patient, 
an attempt to treat them would likely prove 
futile, or unavailing. 

But I know that where the patient is in 
sympathy with the healer's method of treat- 
ment, or comes or writes to her, or him, as the 
case may be, looking for help, whether physical 
ailment, spiritual melancholy, or other com- 



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plaint, there is no trouble in sending the 
positive, health ladened thought to their brain 
and through their organism, and completely 
ousting it. 

But until the patient has reached the point 
where he or she recognizes the absolute truth, 
that all is life, and hence good, and that the law 
of life or love, is both diseaseless and deathless, 
and that he is but the visible expression of, and 
one with the law — God, the trouble is liable to 
return ; in fact, it would be next to an 
impossibility for a healer to overcome the 
inherited beliefs of thousands of years in 
addition to the individual's own stubborn will 
and belief in disease, torture, and trouble, and 
forcibly fill him with new life, health, and 
happiness. 

Our inherited beliefs, like our early individual 
impressions and ideas, are very hard to shake 
off; they cling to us like the death grip of a 
drowning man, and would be too heavy a load 
for a healer to remove — it would be out of 
harmony with the law of vibration. 

Oh, what a drawback and hindrance are 



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inherited beliefs and early errorecns teachings 
to our advancement, even after the scales have 
fallen from our eyes and the truth has been 
unveiled to us. 

While there are many cases that can be 
healed, or purged from the patient's mind 
instantaneously, there are others that require 
more or less time, which depends upon the nature 
of the case, or the favorableuess or unfavor- 
ableness of the conditions. 

By the conditions, I mean the willingness, the 
hope and trust with which the patient looks 
to the healer, and how heavy the wall of 
inherited beliefs of the patient and surrounding 
friends, to be contended with. 

There is no use denying that the beliefs of 
others have either an injurious or beneficial 
influence. The power of the healer's thought 
may be sufficient to batter down the wall 
surrounding the mind of the subject, and effect 
a radical cure ; but the task would be much 
easier and more quickly done if the surroundings 
were favorable. 

It is like a person undertaking to remove a 



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large pile of heavy stones alone, arid an enemy 
of mistaken intelligence, insists upon throwing 
some of the stones back into the pile, this makes 
it a hard, tedious task. But let some friends 
happen along, and with a will and good cheer, 
take hold and help move the stones, how much 
easier and quicker it is done. 

By the nature of the case, I mean, is the 
so-called disease one of imagination, existing in 
the mind only, or is it a case of fever, or 
broken down tissue, nervous prostration, 
derangement of the vital organs, or a case 
calling for the rebuilding or creating of new 
tissue, or invigorating and building up the 
system with new or purified blood? In the latter 
case it requires more time, varying as to the 
amount of tissue to rebuild and the congeniality 
of the surroundings — some healers will not 
attempt to heal unless there is a unison of 
vibration, or the conditions congenial; and under 
such circumstances they will seldom fail of 
satisfactory results — the time required in such 
cases would be from a few days to several 
months. 



140 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

That there is imaginary disease that will even 
prostrate the victim, there is no question. There 
are also many cases of imaginary disease that 
develop into reality and prove fatal. 

To show what power the mind has over the 
body to create disease, or imagine disease that 
will prove fatal with those that are negative in 
their will power, or in other words, those who 
recognize disease as being inevitable, and look 
for, fear, and expect it, I will relate a circum- 
stance that will illustrate. 

I think it was in the year 1838 or near that 
time, and not far from Cleveland, Ohio, an 
epidemic of cholera occurred. My father was 
living there at the time and was working with 
the sick almost constantly, and helping to bury 
the dead. He did nothing else for three or four 
weeks. He had no fear of cholera, and had no 
symptoms ol it, but he said that many persons 
would become alarmed when a death occurred 
near them and would die within an hour or two. 
Some would start to run home and would fail 
before reaching it and expire in a short time; but 
those who were cool and fearless seldom took it. 



truth unveiusd. 141 

If one has a headache, neuralgia, or pain in 
any part of the body, the mind is centered right 
there and only adds fuel to the flame, but it is 
very hard to keep the mind off the pain or to 
keep from fearing the consequences. 

One may have a small pimple or lump appear 
on some part of the body; it may be from cold 
or some trivial cause; but some of their friends 
have died of cancer, or have suffered terribly 
of a tumor, and they begin fearing that it might 
turn to cancer or tumor and find it impossible 
to keep from thinking of it. 

This thought and fear of its developing into 
a cancer sends a rush of blood to that spot, and 
it begins to inflame and they are still more 
alarmed and feed it more and more by adding 
fuel until it actually develops into that which 
they most dread. There are thousands of similar 
cases. 

Let me give one more illustration of the power 
of the mind over the body. A mother's only 
son, a promising young man, her support and 
the pride of her heart, has been away for 
some time, but she gets a letter from him stating 



142 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

that tie will reach home on a certain day by the 
evening train: the day arrives, and everything 
is in readiness to receive him ? and the mother's 
heart is light with joy for the anticipated meeting 
with her noble son; but at noon she receives a 
telegram that this train has been wrecked, 
crashed through a bridge, and her son is among 
the dead. 

What a shock ! She wrings her hands in 
grief. She weeps and finally is prostrated and a 
physician is called. He administers stimulants 
and has hard work to keep her alive. 

At 3 o'clock another telegram is received, 
stating that her son was only pinned beneath 
the timbers and has been rescued only slightly 
hurt and will be home on the next train. 

The news is communicated to the mother; the 
blood begins to come back to her pallid cheeks, 
the light to her eyes, the smile to her face and 
strength to her limbs, and, when the train 
arrives at 10 o'clock that night, she is in 
a rapture of joy, clasping her son in her 
arms. 

This case shows that the mind, being the 



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positive poll of man, has the power to prostrate 
the body and the power to restore it again. 

It is written "as a man thinketk, so is he;" 
and we know that our beliefs have a great deal 
to do with what we are and what we can or 
cannot do. 

I stated that where the pain or disease was in 
the mind only, the result of individual or 
inherited belief and where there was no tissue 
to rebuild, that it could be removed instantly or 
nearly so. I know this to be a fact, and will 
give an instance in support of my statement. 

My widowed daughter, who has kept house 
for me for the last fourteen years, since the 
death of my wife, had a small lump in one of 
her breasts, caused from a hurt while playing 
when a girl of about thirteen years. It remained 
there after she grew to womanhood and caused 
her some uneasiness at times. She had a lady 
physician examine it, who pronounced it a 
cancerous tumor. This of course was what she 
was fearing. 

After this examination, some seven or eight 
years since, she would frequently feel little 



144 TRUTH UNVEIMD. 

shooting pains running off in different direc- 
tions; prior to this it had only given her trouble 
by aching pain. 

Three years ago last summer, there was an 
old lady, Mrs. Allen, who lived about three 
miles from us, near the town of Agra, Kansas, 
who had an operation performed for cancer in 
both breasts; one was taken off. but before she 
rallied sufficiently to have the other one 
removed, she died. She was of an excellent 
family, and her daughter and my daughter were 
warm friends and met almost every week at 
Sunday school and church. 

This sad occurrence caused my daughter to 
be more uneasy, and of course she could not 
keep her mind from dwelling upon her own 
case, although she seldom mentioned it. But 
the tumor began hurting her nearly all the 
time, and the sharp pains would shoot through 
her breast just as she had heard a cancer would 
do. We had not yet learned of the power 
within and were looking for outside help. 

I knew a Mr. Jonathan Phelps, who, when 
my neighbor in Iowa, had a cancer on his 



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tongue. He went to Indiana and had it cured by 
a faith healer. He had moved to Los Angeles, 
CaL, to live with his son, J. J. Phelps. So I 
wrote him for information concerning the 
healer. 

In the meantime, my daughter called my 
attention to an advertisement in her "Deline- 
ator" of a man at Chatham, N. Y., who cured 
cancer with a medicine at $25 a month. I 
wrote to him and at the same time inquired of 
the Bradstreet Commercial Agency of his 
standing. 

Mr Phelps wrote me that the Indiana healer 
had died, and he knew not whether he had left 
the secret with anyone. 

The reply from Bradstreet was of an unfavor- 
able nature. 

Now, it had often occurred to me that I could 
deal with this trouble as well as any one else, 
but I lacked faith, and when it seemed as 
though all outside help had failed — for the 
knife I abhorred — my faith strengthened, and 
I felt certain that I could accomplish the desired 
end. 



146 TRUTH UNVKIIvKD. 

I said to my daughter : — " We don't have to 
go away from home to cure that tumor." 

I gave her what I now know to be a mental 
treatment. At the time I hardly knew whether 
it was a prayer with "Thy will be done," left 
out, or a positive command. 

For I had been investigating the compilation 
and history of the Bible, and must confess that I 
had lost faith in the God set forth in that Book ; 
but my daughter was healed from that moment, 
and has never been troubled since, although 
that was over three years ago. 

The truth then seemed to be fully unveiled to 
me Up to this time I had been entirely 
unaided. I began studying and reading works on 
mental science — the most able of which, I think, 
are the writings of Mrs. Helen Wilmans, now of 
Seabreeze, Florida — until I arrived at where I 
now stand. 

I think Christ as represented in the Gospels, 
the highest type of the visible expression 
of the law of life — God — that the world 
has ever known. Though he is not credited 
with writing a book, he ! is credited 



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with many beautiful sayings and of mani- 
festing a beautiful spirit, and is an excellent 
ideal, worthy of imitation by all men ; but no 
doubt he is credited with saying things which 
he did not say. 

As I pursued my study of the power of 
thought to heal, and experimented when 
opportunity offered, I became more positive in 
my beliefs and will-power until it seemed as 
though there were times when nothing in the 
shape of human ills could withstand that 
power. 

I have stated that it was not absolutely neces- 
sary that the patients should know that they 
were being treated in order that it might prove 
successful, 

I will relate one instance which was positive 
evidence to me. This was the first serious case 
where there was broken down tissue to replace 
or heal, that I had tried. I give the name and 
connections, so that if any one wishes to inquire 
as to the truth of my statement they may do so. 

The patient was Rev. B. F. Randal, of the 
Town of Agra, Phillips, Co. Kas, For several 



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years lie had a cancer on his face that had 
troubled him. He had doctored, without 
benefit. 

During the winter of 1897, a painful eruption 
appeared around it, and he became quite feeble, 
being over seventy years old. 

His son, W. R., with whom he lived, told me 
that he did not expect him to survive the winter. 
He was a particular friend of mine, and an 
excellent man. 

I met him one morning in my son's store, he 
was feeling and looking quite poorly. While 
sitting there talking it occurred to my mind 
rather forcibly, that I could remove that cancer; 
so while the clerk was out in the wareroom, I 
stepped to where he sat and said, " Uncle 
Randal, let me see that cancer.'' It was on the 
side of his nose. I rubbed my finger over it 
tenderly, saying nothing, but made up my mind 
that it must go. 

I lived a half-mile out of town ; while going 
for my mail every morning, and on my way 
home, I had his image in my mind as if he were 
standing before me. 



truth unvbiued. 149 

Several times a day and always after I went 
to bed, I would take a round at it. When I 
would meet him I w r ould look for results, and 
although seeing no change would not get dis- 
couraged. 

There came several days of bad weather 
which prevented the old gentleman from getting 
down town. After which, I stepped into the 
post office one morning, and there sat Uncle 
Randal by the stove. 

I looked for the cancer the first thing, but 
could see none. I stepped closer and saw to my 
delight that it was not there. I said, " Uncle 
Randal, that cancer seems to be gone. " 

He rubed his finger over the place vigorously 
and said, "Yes, I don't feel it at all any more/' 
"Well, I am glad," said I. 

He answered, "You guess I am." 

So when I went out he followed, and we 
walked over to my son's store and sat down by 
the stove. When the clerk was out of hearing, 
I asked Mr. Randal if he remembered the 
morning I examined that cancer. He said that 
he did. 



150 truth un veiled. 

"Well," said I, u l have never let tip on that 
thing from then till now, and I am very glad 
that it is gone." 

We shook hands over it and rejoiced together. 
It had been about thirty days or a little less. I 
told him to say nothing about the cause of its 
disappearance, but we would rejoice that it 
could be done. 

He did, however, several months afterwards 
at a meeting of the Epworth L,eague, when the 
subject of miracles was being discussed, get up 
and refer to it as a miracle, stating that they all 
knew that he had had a cancer on his nose for 
several years; that he had doctored and prayed 
over it, but it had done no good; his faith was 
not strong enough; but that another Christian 
gentleman had taken it in hand, and in about a 
week it was gone. He was so elated that he 
was mistaken in the time. 

Now, during this case, I was not treating 
that lump and sore upon Father Randal's nose. 
I was pouring into his mind the positive truth, 
that all was life and hence good; that life was 
absolutely diseaseless; that health was free,, and 



truth unvkii^kd. 151 

he was entitled to it; and that this negative 
expression had no right there and must not 
remain there. I held the positive thought that 
he was well, that he had no cancer and would 
recognize nothing but absolute freedom from 
such negative conditions, until it actually took 
root, unconsciously, in his mind and banished 
the error. For that is just what it is. 

All disease or imaginary disease is an error of 
the intelligence, a mistaken belief. 

I am narrating these facts to my readers that 
they may know their power when they recog- 
nize nothing but good — truth, the law, and 
their relation to the all-good, the life principle. 
For this is too grand a truth — and destined to 
affect the whole world — to remain veiled to the 
people. 

Let the reader not lose sight of the fact that 
thoughts are things, substantial things, that 
can be sent by a positive brain on errands of 
good to the less positive, breaking the positive 
truth to them that all is good, and filling them 
with life, health, good cheer and happiness; or 
it will have the same effect upon your own 
organism. 



152 TRUTH TJNVKIXED. 

But when you weaken in your recognition of 
these principles, you are liable to relapse or fall 
back just in proportion to your weakening. 
Don't forget this fundamental truth — that to 
recognize more life, more health and more 
happiness, is to have more life, more health and 
happiness. I should have stated that Father 
Randal's general health was improved also, and 
he seemed quite cheerful, and he is still living 
and recently sent me his kind regards, which I 
fully appreciate. 

I was over to San Francisco a short time 
since and visited Francis Truth's place of opera- 
tion to learn something of his method of healing. 
His hours for healing are from 9 to 12 and from 
1 to 5 o'clock, I believe. I walked into the 
reception room, which is on the second floor of 
the building. 

Five minutes after 9 o'clock, there were eight 
persons already in the reception room, waiting 
their turn to be admitted to his presence. 
People kept coming in until all the seats were 
occupied, being twelve. 

Hanging upon all the walls were cards with 



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scripture verses printed upon them in rather 
large type, so as to be easily read. The}' were 
mostly sayings of Christ, or such as are credited 
to him, pertaining to the healing of the sick, 
casting out devils, etc. 

Observing closely, I noticed while sitting 
there that every one who came in seemed to 
wear an air of depression, or something akin to 
sorrow, an expression I cannot exactly describe 
— caused perhaps by their continued imaginary 
illness, or it may be partly on account of their 
thought of coming into the divine presence, as 
Mr. Truth poses as a Divine healer. 

The silence was almost painful, scarcely any 
one looking at another, and if one spoke it 
was usually in a whisper. 

The company was nearly equally divided, one 
or two more ladies than gentlemen, and of all 
ages from twenty-three or tw T enty-four to 
seventy. 

I soon realized the fact that I was positive to 
all in the room, and felt that I could easily 
banish the trouble from each one there, and 
began talking to them about the method of 
treatment, etc. 



154 TRUTH TJNVHII/ED. 

At 9:20 o'clock the door opened into the 
healer's room, and one of our number went in. 
I kept up my conversation, and to all who 
engaged with me I returned the positive thought 
of good cheer, and presently we had a livel3 r , 
cheerful, laughing company. Those who were 
not engaged in the conversation were interested 
listeners, and were not afraid to look up. 

The healer is rather a young man of perhaps 
thirty to thirty-five years of age, with an intel- 
ligent and pleasant face and manner, which, 
together with his large-sleeved, priestly robe and 
the scripture verses on the wall, are calculated 
to have an awe-inspiring influence upon the 
visitors in search of health. 

Mr. Truth is doing lots of good in relieving 
suffering of body and mind. 

One person told me that his mother had her 
handkerchief blessed, or charged — she was 
troubled with heart disease — and when she 
would be suffering so that she could not sleep 
she would place the handkerchief over the 
heart and go off to sleep. You may judge as to 
whether the virtue was in the handkerchief or 
in the belief of the patient. 



TRUTH UNVEILED. 155 

Christ's way of putting it was ; — " Thy faith 
hath made the whole." c< Thy faith hath saved 
thee." "Only believe and thy servant shall 
live," etc. 

I know that a letter can be so charged while 
writing that the receiver will feel the current 
when reading. In regard to those intermediate 
appliances I think that as an act of faith on 
the part of the patient, they perform the service 
of bringing about a vibratory conjunction of the 
thought of the healer and the subject. 

It is a very desirable thing to be able to 
remove the ills and troubles that afflict the 
human family without medicine. In fact, it is 
a wonderful power, which is being unfolded to 
the human mind. 

But it is my greatest desire to enable my 
readers to rise in the power of their own thought 
and repel, or ward off all these negations them- 
selves, or banish them where they have become 
fixed in their negative mind, their bodies. 

No matter what the affliction is, whether 
poverty, sickness, financial or other trouble, 
fear, no matter of what nature, melancholy, or 



156 TRUTH UN VEILED. 

whatever may be the negation, you have the 
power to overcome them all. Bear in mind, 
that to be negative is not a mark of weakness 
by any means; for many of our strongest and 
best business men and women, our most active 
in beneficent and philanthropic enterprises, are 
negative in their nature, mainly because of their 
inherited beliefs and ideas that have become 
fixed owing to their early instructions, and 
impressions from their environments. 

But the trained mind can rise above all these 
things, and then double teams, as it were, may 
be formed to help their less positive brother or 
sister to overcome their negations. 

One asks, "Is not this power to heal the same 
pow T er that is brought to bear in mesmerism or 
hypnotism?" 

Yes, it is the same power but exercised in an 
altogether different manner. While in mesmer- 
ism the operator has complete control of the 
mind of the one operated upon, in the case of 
healing the operator only strengthens the mind 
of the patient by projecting his or her more 
positive thought, thus enabling the patient by 



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the help of the operator to banish the trouble 
of whatever nature — doubling teams on the 
disease. 

I stated in the beginning of this chapter that 
it was not really necessary that the healer 
should see or even be near the patient in order 
to cause the banishment of the affliction. I 
will give one instance in the support of this 
statement. 

It is of two-fold importance, as it shows the 
effect upon the mind as well as the body— the 
negative poll of man. 

This was the case of a lady, then Miss Ellen 
Morrow of near Douglas, Kansas, now Mrs. 
Lackey of the same place. I visited the home 
of her father, Thos. A. Morrow, some three 
years ago. She was his house-keeper, and 
about thirty-eight years of age. 

I had not seen any of the family for twenty- 
six years, when they lived in Adair Co., Mo. 
I had corresponded with them, however, and 
this daughter, one of three sisters, did the 
writing. The other sisters, who were younger, 
married and left Ellen to keep house fof her 
father. 



158 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

I learned through her letters that she was 
seriously afflicted with epileptic convulsions 
and was constantly under treatment ; and I 
thought I could detect from her letters an 
impairment of the intellect, which I afterward 
learned was a fact. 

When I visited them I was, as now, very 
enthusiastic over the discovery of this wonderful 
truth— the power within to banish disease — 
and was trying to get others to understand it. 
I was at her father's a couple of days. 

She had grown to be quite large and fleshy 
and was very despondent and unhappy. 

She, her father and I were sitting by the stove 
talking one day, when she addressed me and 
said, "I feel one of those spells coming on; I 
want you to help me," reaching me her hand. 

I took it and asked, "Do you believe I can 
help you?" 

She said, "Yes." 

I brought my thought to bear as best I could, 
at the same time diverting her mind and fear 
by talking on other subjects and soon got her 
mind interested in another direction. Presently 



TRUTH UNVEIUSD. 159 

I asked her how she felt. The crisis had passed, 
and she had forgotten about it. 

After my return home I received a letter from 
her stating that she had felt so much better 
since my visit there, that she wanted me to give 
her a mental treatment. 

I consented and wrote her that I would send 
a treatment twice a day, naming the hour, that 
we might bring our thoughts in unison. 

I treated her for despondency and all that 
was undesirable. I have not seen her since, but 
received a letter from her perhaps two months 
afterwards, in which she stated that she had 
not taken a dose of medicine since my visit, and 
that she had enjoyed more real happiness in the 
few months since I was there than in all her 
life before. 

In less than a year I received the announce- 
ment of her happy marriage. And another a few 
months ago that they are very happy. She 
wrote that she thought I had been sent thereto 
save her and banish the dark clouds from her 
life. 

I want my readers to know the power that is 



160 TRUTH UNVEIXED. 

within them if they will only understand them- 
selves. I know it looks like a wonderful thing, 
and a great departure from the old ruts and 
grooves that we have been moving in for 
thousands of years, and it is just as wonderful 
as it looks to be. 

You must remember that this is an age of 
wonderful events, and it is rapidly growing 
more so, as man's intelligence enables him to 
recognize his relation to the all-powerful — the 
law of life or being. It will surely pay you to 
investigate for yourself. Cast aside your 
prejudices, your fears of not being on the 
popular side, and learn the greatest truth ever 
promulgated or known to the world — that you 
are one with the universal spirit of Life, I^ove, 
and Intelligence. 

Assert your right to health and happiness, for 
there is no power to keep you from your rights. 
The only thing in your way is your belief in 
your own weaknesses and your fears. Cast 
them aside, and recognize your true relation to 
the supreme mind, of which you are a part. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

The Capital and Labor Problem from the Standpoint 
of Reason and a Universal Brotherhood. 

CAN see no better way of permanently 
settling the capital and labor problem that 
is causing so much agitation, unrest, and bitter 
feeling throughout the world just now, than 
along the line of intelligent thought and reason. 
And I aai sure it can be satisfactorily adjusted 
on the basis of justice to all, when both sides 
will listen to reason's suggestions, and act upon 
them. 

Let all men, laborers and employers, take 
heed to reason's argument : — That we are all of 
one spirit, and sprung from the same source, 
hence, each a part of the great whole; that the 
universe would not be complete with any one of 
us left out, and that the interests of all are 
largely identical — as we are all seeking for hap- 
piness — and that what benefits one individual 
or one class of individuals, to some extent 



162 truth u:\yeiled. 

benefits the whole bod}'- of individuals; and. on 
the other hand, that, that which injures or 
degrades one individual or one class of indi- 
viduals, will, to some extent, injure or degrade 
the whole body. 

Then we will understand that when we are 
doing that which benefits or raises our fellow 
or brother, we are doing something to benefit 
and raise ourselves to some extent. And just 
as truly as we injure or degrade our fellow, we 
ourselves, as a part of the great body, will be 
injured or degraded in proportion to the part 
we sustain to the whole body and the seventy 
of the injury perpetrated. 

Let the employer take this view of his relation 
to his fellow, the great body of humanity, and 
the employee take the same view from his stand- 
point — which is the only proper view in the 
premises — and let labor conventions, business 
associations, commissions, and all deliberative 
bodies reason and act from this basis, and there 
will be such a revolution along this line that 
the laborer will feel such an interest in his 
employers' welfare that he will render such 



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agreeable service and in so pleasant a way that 
the employer, from his standpoint of reason and 
brotherly feeling, will meet him on this plat- 
form. And instead of the jealous and bitter 
feeling that now exists between capital and 
labor, or the employer and the employed, there 
will be a friendly drawing together, a oneness 
of interest, and the employer will naturally feel 
like making the employed a partner in the 
profits of the products of the labor performed, as 
is now done in some instances, and a much 
better feeling and a safer and more satisfactory 
state of affairs will exist all around. 

It would create a brotherly and friendly feel- 
ing throughout, and one would regard his 
neighbor's interest with as strict justice as he 
would like the neighbor to regard his own. 
And the capital and labor question and many 
other perplexing problems would be permanently 
settled. 

All that is needed is to just give reason a fair 
chance on both sides, and these knotty problems 
will adjust themselves. 



CHAPTER IX. 

Heaven in the Home and no Toll-Gates. 

THE truth concerning Heaven has been 
so veiled or notified to the people by the 
religious teachers of all sects, that the world 
has derived but little benefit from its existence. 
In fact, it has been kept so much in obscurity, 
and the way so barred by obstacles, such as 
creeds, beliefs, and unbeliefs that many have 
doubted the existence of such a place or state. 

It seems as though many of the religious 
teachers of all sects have an idea that they 
pretty nearly own the whole territory and the 
toll-gate leading to it, and would fence it in 
with a wall so high and so tight that no one 
could gain admittance except by way of their 
toll-gate, w T hile others would make it impossible 
for but few to gain admittance upon any terms 
-whatever. While still others have it located so 
infinitely far away, in some unknown nook of 
space, that it is hard for us to realize that we 



TRUTH UNVEILED. 165 

have any interest in it. And what is one of 
the worst features in connection with it, is, they 
tell us that we must die in order to gain 
admittance at all. 

Now, why not reverse the whole procedure 
and have Heaven here and now, and without 
toll or cost. 

Reason teaches us — and there is no proof to 
the contrary — -that Heaven is a state or con- 
dition, not a particular place, and may be 
enjoyed here and now, and here and now is 
where we need it, while we have the cares, the 
trials and difficulties incident to this life to con- 
tend with. 

My experience and that of thousands of 
others, corroborates the teachings of reason ; 
besides we have the best of authority in support 
of this grand truth. 

You remember that Christ said, "The king- 
dom of God is w r ithin you," and it is supposed 
that God is in his kingdom, and that is in 
harmony with our idea of God in man. On 
another occasion Christ is credited with sayings 
"The Kingdom of Heaven is within." 



163 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

Whether Christ was an ideal man only — as 
some believe — or a real man that lived on the 
earth among the people about Jerusalem,, does 
not matter so far as the sayings accredited to 
him are concerned. If they are in harmony 
with philosophical truth they are to be 
accepted. That Heaven is happiness is a 
philosophical truth. Then we may have 
Heaven in the home here and now, this I knc ,v 
to be true. 

I once had a talk with a presiding elder of the 
M. E. Church on this subject, in which we 
differed on some points; but in his sermon of 
the following evening — it being quarterly meet- 
ing — he told his congregation that if they 
expected to go to Heaven, they must take 
Heaven with them, ''And," said he, " if you 
go to h — 1, you will take h — 1 with you." 
That implied that we created our own heaven 
and our own h — 1, which is certainly true. 

If you want Heaven in the home and in 
your soul, just recognize nothing but the good 
— for all is good — the lovely, the beautiful, and 
that which tends to elevate and make yourself 
and others free, hence happy, 



TRUTH UNVKII.ED. 167 

Remember when you are trying to make 
others happy you are creating Heaven within, 
that is the universal order. Cultivate content- 
ment, peace of mind, and recognize nothing 
else. Hold the thought of loveliness, purity, 
beauty, and happiness until they become fixed 
principles with you. Fear nothing. Let 
nothing worry or disturb your peace, for worry 
never made matters any better, but often much 
worse. 

Creating Heaven in the home, is a matter 
that each one can take part in and thus make it 
easier. Remember that desire is an attributeof 
the L,aw of life, or the life principle, and relates 
you to the law, so if you desire a thing — that 
does not conflict with the rights of your fellow 
— it is unmistakable evidence that what you 
desire exists, and that it is for you, and will come 
to you, if you couple your desire with belief. 

Theologians tell us that the fact that we 
desire Eternal life is positive evidence that it 
exists, and for us — but they affix certain con- 
ditions, or have their toll-gates that w r e must 
pass through. From the same hypothesis, we 



168 TRUTH UNVHXIvED. 

may claim that it is possible to attain to so 
thorough an understanding of the Law of life 
and pur relation to it as to be able to prolong 
life at will — as Mr. Tesla asserts — if we so 
desire. 

Really I think this a great improvement over 
the orthodox plan, of dying in order to gain 
Heaven. Truly Heaven is here, it is all about 
us and in us, and will unfold its gracious 
bounties to us if we are ripe to recognize and 
receive them. Heaven will not unfold to those 
who will not unfold to meet it, but believe they 
must die in order to gain it. 

By the faculty of the mind called memory, we 
may call up the happy events and the most 
enjoyable part of our past lives and live them 
over and over in our minds at will ; but let our 
mistakes and what has given us pain, be passed 
into oblivion, neverto be recalled except as way 
marks to steer clear of in the future. 

If all mothers would be so considerate during 
pregnancy as to allow nothing to worry them; 
to give place to no fear, anger, or despondency, 
but cultivate a spirit of cheerfulness and love, 



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and constantly hold the thought of youth, 
beauty, loveliness, and purity; hold in disdain 
all that is impure, and hurtful ; never look on 
the dark side of the picture, but call 
up and live over and over again the 
brightest and happiest events of their 
lives, it would so imprint or stamp upon 
the character and lives of their offspring such 
a desire for all that is good, noble, and elevating, 
and such a love for purity, loveliness, and 
beauty, and such a dislike for all that is low, 
vicious, and brutal, that in a few generations 
there would be no seeking after such as tends 
to degrade, but the seeking would be in the 
opposite direction. Men would lose their taste 
for that which tends to degrade. 

Mothers have a greater controlling power 
than many of them are aware of. It is true that 
with some husbands this would be a very 
difficult thing of accomplishment, but the truth 
exists just the same, and is worthy of every 
mother's consideration. 



CHAPTER X. 

Poverty and Wealth. 

VA/lTAT I have to say upon this subject is 
from experience, observation, and reason- 
ing. As to poverty I know there is a great 
deal more in feeling poor than being actually 
deprived of worldly goods. 

You have probably known many persons whom 
you considered well off, who were never 
satisfied ; always wanting more, and worrying 
for fear that this or that investment would prove 
abortive. I have known two men in my life, 
one a farmer and the other a merchant, who 
committed suicide because they felt poor, or 
feared poverty ; although the merchant had 
succeeded in accumulating sixty-three thousand 
dollars — at which his estate was afterwards 
appraised — competition became so keen that he 
feared the conseqences, and began worrying 
over prospective poverty until in his mind he 
was so poor that he hanged himself in Burl- 



TRUTH UNVKIIKD. 171 

ington, Iowa. The farmer lived in Henry 
Co., Iowa. He had a small farm, was out of 
debt, and had some money in bank ; but he had 
a large family, and began worrying about what 
might happen, and how he could provide for his 
increasing domestic cares until he felt so poor 
that he ended his existence. 

I started in life myself without anything but 
my buoyant, happy spirit and a wealth of hope 
and confidence. I never felt poor, but always 
wanted to help those who seemed to be 
struggling with poverty. I would not exchange 
my disposition of contentment for Vanderbilt's 
millions. Having nothing does not always 
mean poverty, nor do great possessions always 
mean wealth to the owner. If you want to live 
in the poorhouse, just fear it and carry it 
around with you in your mind, and you don't 
need to exchange places — you have it all the 
time. And if you wish to live in a palace all 
your life, just carry it in your mind all the 
time, and your little one, two or three roomed 
dwelling with contentment will prove a palace 
to you. 



CHAPTER XI 

Conclusion. 

TN TREATING the different subjects con- 
tained in this book, my chief object has 
been to encourage independent thought and to 
show the importance of using our own reasoning 
faculties in deciding questions upon which the 
opinions of men and women are divided. 

I am aware that very mauy of our best people 
are so busy and their mind so occupied with 
providing the necessaries of life for those 
dependent upon them, that the} T are inclined to 
let others do the reasoning and deciding for 
them and are liable to be led astray and 
imposed upon. It has always been so. 

I have aimed to be fair and present facts 
according to what has been gleaned from 
history, science, my own experience, observa- 
tion and the light of reason. For historical and 
scientific facts in regard to the antiquity of man, 
the early history of the church, and the 



TRUTH UN VEILED. 173 

authenticity of the Bible, I have consulted none 
but standard works and have only given enough 
of the facts gleaned to interest the readers to 
search for themselves. As to the history, com- 
pilation aud writers of the Bible, "Johnson's 
New Universal Cyclopedia/ ' "Modern Science 
and Modern Thought,'' by S. Laing, M. P., and 
Thos. Paine, afford much information. 

If truth is what we are seeking, we should 
not confine our search to one class of writers, 
but get testimony from every source obtainable 
and then weigh the evidence by the light of 
reason. 

The great book of nature is the true word of 
God, for God is in all things. 

It is not my purpose to discuss the authenticity 
of the Bible, but give a few references and 
let the readers investigate for themselves. But 
don't be afraid to read certain books because 
the priest or preacher has denounced them; 
they might have a sinister motive in doing so. 
I used to be very prejudiced against such works 
as Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" and R. G. 
Ingersol's writings. But I find, in getting 



174 TRUTH UNVEII.KD, 

acquainted with them by reading their works, 
that they are not only able, fair and broad- 
minded men, but good and noble spirited as 
well. It is safe to read, reason, and investigate 
for yourself— do your own interpreting and 
follow the dictates of the voice within. 

The object of the church, as well as that of 
national establishments, seems to have been 
power and revenue. There is much good to be 
credited to the workings and influence of the 
church, and we should accept and recognize all 
that is good, all that is true, and all which tends 
to elevate and cement mankind with the bond 
of universal love. 

There are a great many beautiful and grand 
truths set forth in the Bible that are highly 
attractive for their poetical beauty, their 
elevating tendency and their historical relations. 
And we should accept all these, not as the word 
of God, but for the good they have done and 
are doing, and because they are in harmony 
with philosophical truth. 

I might cite many passages that are in 
harmony with the leading thought contained in 



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this book. For instance, there are no utter- 
ances accredited to Christ concerning Heaven 
that would conflict with the idea of Heaven in 
the home, here and now, but are in harmony 
with it. Again, as to the truth of God in man 
and a universal brotherhood, see First John 4:7 
— ' 'Beloved, let us love one another, for love is 
of God; and every one that loveth is born of 
God and know r eth God." 4:16 — "God is love, 
and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God 
and God in him. ,, Again, in support of the 
theory that man will ere long reach the point 
in his upw r ard climb for knowledge that he will 
so understand the law of life and his relation to 
it that he will be able to prolong life at will, we 
have the following scripture — Jesus is credited 
with saying: " He that believeth in me, though 
he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever 
liveth and believeth in me shall never die" — 
see John 11: 25-26. 

"But," says one, "he meant the soul should 
not die. Oh, no, that could not be, for we have 
always been taught that the soul is deathless.* * 

Again, Christ says, "If a man keep my 



176 TRUTH UNVEILED. 

sayings, he shall never see death* ' — John 8: 51. 
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death" — First Cor. 15: 26. Now, the soul being 
deathless, it has no enemy in death, so Paul 
could not have had reference to the soul. 

Christ said he was one with the Father, or the 
life principle, and that we were one with him. 

We are his brethren. 

Know your power and assert your right to 
health and happiness. 

As helps to an understanding of this power 
and as a source of strength to every mental 
faculty, I would recommend to the reader "The 
Home Course in Mental Science," "The Blossom 
of a Century,'' and other works of Mrs. Helen 
Wilmans of Seabreeze, Florida. 



THE end. 



17 1899 



